Artistic representations of Toussaint Louverture through the ages
网页2020年10月26日 — Shange’s Toussaint was a call to challenge stereotypical representations of Blackness, expressed in the “monolithic idea that everybody is the same.”. He was also a prompt to reject intellectual conformism and take charge of one’s destiny, not “sit around waiting for the powers that be”—whether they were white or Black.
The social cell - Bookforum Magazine
网页2012年4月23日 — Indignadas and Indignados of the World, Unite: Eric Toussaint on the international context of global outrage (in 5 parts). What do social movements accomplish and how? Humanizing the social sciences: A review of Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L. Berger.
The artistic possibilities of boredom - Bookforum Magazine
网页2008年11月13日 — Novels about nothing: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s earliest books, newly reissued by Dalkey Archive, show a man devoted to the artistic possibilities of boredom and minutiae. What's the Matter with Greenwich? Why the rich voted for Obama against their own economic interest.
Tom McCarthy reconsiders avant-garde fiction’s response to …
网页McCarthy, too, is aware that an avant-garde stance is not inherently radical, and that the line between realism and antirealism isn’t always so sharp: In his omnibus London Review of Books essay on the Belgian nouveau nouveau romancier Jean-Philippe Toussaint, McCarthy says he has no choice but to conclude with the cliché that he wonders ...
The rise of Latin America - Bookforum Magazine
网页2010年11月9日 — Kenan Malik on The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James. Letter from Port of Spain: Is Trinidad the next Jamaica? Placencia wants tourism, but not too much of it — can the peninsula in Belize have it both ways?
Jul 13, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am – Bookforum Magazine
网页2010年7月13日 — Zizou nostalgia: With no World Cup left to watch, Paris blogger Lauren Elkin remembers the 2006 World Cup, when French soccer star Zinedine Zidane headbutted an opponent, inspiring Jean-Pierre Toussaint’s story “The Melancholy of Zidane.”
paper trail – Bookforum Magazine
网页2011年1月27日 — The New York Times is publishing its first e-book, executive editor Bill Keller’s Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy: Complete and Updated Coverage from The New York Times (an essay adapted from the book's introduction will be published in this Sunday's Times magazine and is already available online).