Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance"</i></b><i><b>"Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is"</b></i><b><i>"</i>Liberties <i>is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind."</i></b><b><i><br></i></b><i>Liberties, </i>a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. <br>Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today's culture and politics.<br>This issue of <i>Liberties</i> includes: new work from Nobel Prize winner <b>Mario Vargas Llosa</b>; drawings by <b>Leonard Cohen</b> published for the first time; <b>Mamtimin Ala's</b> essay on China's genocide of the Uyghurs; <b>Jaroslaw Anders'</b> analysis of the crisis in Belarus; <b>Cass R. Sunstein</b> on liberalism inebriated; <b>Richard Thompson Ford</b> on what slavery does and does not explain; <b>Sean Wilentz</b> on the historical strategy of the Republican Party; <b>Benjamin Moser</b> writes about translation as a form of tourism in literary life;<b> Jonathan Zimmerman</b> on the scandal of college teaching; <b>Mark Lilla</b> on cults of innocence and their victims; <b>Helen Vendler</b> on <b>Adrienne Rich</b>; <b>Holly Brewer</b> on race and enlightenment; <b>David Thomson</b> asks, What shall we watch now?; <b>Celeste Marcus</b> (managing editor) on the legend of <b>Alice Neel</b>; <b>Leon Wieseltier</b> (editor) on Zionism's beautiful stubbornness of survival; and new poetry from <b>Ange Mlinko</b> and <b>Shaul Tchernikhovsky</b>, translated by <b>Robert Alter</b>.<br> <p/><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Leon Wieseltier is the editor of <i>Liberties</i>.<br>Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of <i>Liberties</i>.<br>Mamtimin Ala was born in East Turkistan in 1971. He is the author of <i>Worse than Death: Reflections on the Uyghur Genocide</i>.<br>Richard Thompson Ford teaches law at Stanford University and is the author of <i>The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Relations Worse</i>.<br>Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. This essay was translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.<br>Jaroslaw Anders is the author most recently of <i>Between Fire and Sleep: Essays on Modern Polish Poetry and Prose</i>.<br>Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and the author of <i>The Rise of Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln </i>and <i>No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding</i>.<br>Ange Mlinko teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her new collection of poems, <i>Venice</i>, will appear next year.<br>Benjamin Moser is a writer and translator living in Amsterdam. His most recent book is <i>Sontag: Her Life and Work</i>. <br>Jonathan Zimmerman is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His new book <i>Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn </i>was published this year.<br>Leonard Cohen the poet and songwriter died in 2016.Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and the author most recently of <i>Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in the Age of Deception</i>. Mark Lilla is Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of <i>The Stillborn God </i>and <i>The Once and Future Liberal</i>.<br>Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University and the author of many books on poetry.<br>Holly Brewer teaches history at the University of Maryland and is the author of <i>By Birth or Consent: Children, Law and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority</i>.<br>Shaul Tchernikhovsky was a renowned Hebrew poet and translator. He died in Jerusalem in 1943. Robert Alter is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkley. <br>David Thomson is the author of many books on film, most recently <i>A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors</i>.<br>
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