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“I have always thought that writing about love is a lot like falling in love. It consumes your waking days and nights.”
- Jeremy de Chavez, “Thinking(,)Love: On Jean-Luc Nancy and Alain Badiou”
Alina Stefanescu
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Alina Stefanescu
@aliner
poet. writer. reader. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian & alabamian. self-deleting. self-ghosting.latest is MY HERESIES @sarabandebooks.
- She’s defending her thesis. As one must.She's not deleting, she's not going down, she's wrestling in the mud with the replies. 30M views and she's facing everyone with a smile and nothing but her metaphorical sword in hand. A worthy poaster!
- Aaron Bushnell told us that US troops were being sent to Gaza. He knew. He knew what he would be forced to do. And how publicly Biden and Blinken lied about the hostage deal as they planned this operation. How pathetic and weak our leaders.
- Anne Boyer resigned as poetry editor of New York Times magazine.
- The way Wim Wenders saturated this film with nostalgia and infected us with longing for a past we never experienced. Or maybe just me.Paris, Texas, 1984 dir. Wim Wenders
- Dear friends, I spent the morning learning about the Israel's decades of limiting chemo drugs (and related resources like water) to Gaza, and checkpoints that make it impossible for Gazans to access treatment in West Bank and East Jerusalem. My heart is fucking broken. (1/3)
- Absolutely a masterclass on language and syntax between these two.
- Schiele, Lovers, 1909– I love his attention to tights. Schiele hands and Schiele tights.
- I remember the first time I read Nikki Giovanni’s “Allowables” — being overcome by the extraordinary thing she taught me about my own fear, its murderousness. And she did this not by standing above me, but by turning quietly and saying: see what we did?
- I don’t think I ever in my life felt the glare of racism burn stranger and more intense than in Israel. - Ta-Nehesi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates’s writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine. Read our new cover story now: trib.al/14EyFWS
- Leonardo da Vinci, A copse of trees (1508). Red chalk forever.
- This is Hitoshi Igarashi, a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature. He was murdered in 1991 for translating Salman Rushdie's novel. Translators have lost their lives for books.
