“That’s Just My Life and It Seems Quite Normal to Me.”
The Climate Crisis and the Exclusion of Non-White Voices
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate speaks about her time at the Arctic Basecamp and being cropped out of a key news photo by the Associated Press.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Nutting; Quick; Dawkins; Obejas; Carrasco; Klam
Out this week: Made for Love by Alissa Nutting; The Reason You’re Alive by Matthew Quick; The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins; The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas; Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco; and Who Is Rich? by Matthew Klam. For more on these and other new titles, go read our most recent book preview.
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The Princess and the Pedlar
Recently rediscovered: a comic libretto by Raymond Chandler titled “The Princess and the Pedlar.”
Big Picture
The cartoonist Joe Sacco has a new graphic novel out that uses a twenty-four-foot panorama to depict the first day of the Battle of the Somme. At Salon, Sacco tells Daniel D’Addario that his upbringing in Australia, where the landings at Gallipoli have great patriotic significance, helped to spur his interest in the War to End All Wars. (Related: we interviewed Sacco last year.)
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Dear White People
“[S]ometimes, one of the best ways to better understand racism is to just pick up a book.” As part of a recent tweet about his availability for racial consultation, Colson Whitehead recommended an evergreen Huffington Post piece entitled “16 Books About Race That Every White Person Should Read“, a list that includes Claudia Rankine‘s Citizen, T. Geronimo Johnson‘s Welcome to Braggsville, and The Sellout by Paul Beatty, which we reviewed here. We hope he’s collecting referral fees.
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