Working on a big update for the site, and we've reached the *10,000th* article/essay to be indexed there. Thanks on helping us with the milestone, Amanda. Feinman and #LAReviewofBooks with "Hereditary and Horror Movie Mothers You Can’t Run Home To" from 2018.
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/hereditary-horror-movie-mothers-cant-run-home/

Excellent Ihor Pomerantsev interview from #LAReviewofBooks about #Ukraine, #literature , the mythos of the city, the work of Paul Celan, the value (or lack thereof) of poetry during wartime, and more. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-is-the-secret-of-chernivtsi-a-conversation-with-igor-pomerantsev/

@GatekeepKen This got very little play because its so appalling, but, its part of the Manafort/Russia/Trump story : the Unpublished Portions of Andrea Manafort’s Hacked Texts February 18, 2019 By Maya Gurantz L.A. Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kompromat-or-revelations-from-the-unpublished-portions-of-andrea-manaforts-hacked-texts/ Manafort is below scum.
#paulmanafort #manafort #andreamanafort #russia #lareviewofbooks

My final #bookreview of the year is about “Offended Sensibilities,” Alisa Ganieva’s incredibly perceptive satire of contemporary Russian society, translated by Carol Apollonio, for #LAReviewofBooks.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/persecution-mania-on-alisa-ganievas-offended-sensibilities/

I've also written a lot of essays on political/cultural issues, including this essay for the #lareviewofbooks about
#carlandre, #anamendieta, and the #cult of the #malegenius that's recently seeing the light of day again because of #helenmolesworth's podcast #deathofanartist.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/carl-broke-something-on-carl-andre-ana-mendieta-and-the-cult-of-the-male-genius/