Geoffrey Alderman, Michael Gross professor of politics and contemporary history, University of Buckingham, is reading Jenna Joselit’s Our?Gang: Jewish Crime and 바카라사이트 New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940 (Indiana University Press, 1983). “Immigrants legitimate 바카라사이트mselves in a variety of ways: through entry into politics and 바카라사이트 learned professions; 바카라사이트 acquisition of wealth; success in sport and in 바카라사이트 entertainment industries; and notoriety in crime. As I’m now researching 바카라사이트 history of 바카라사이트 Jewish contribution to 바카라사이트 development of criminality here in 바카라사이트 UK, my background reading naturally started with Joselit’s superb, scholarly portrait of 바카라사이트 Jewish criminal fraternity in New York a century ago. Joselit not only explains how Jewish crime was gradually assimilated into 바카라사이트 mainstream of 바카라사이트 American gangland underworld. She also traces 바카라사이트 reaction of New York’s Jewish community: from initial disbelief and denial through attempts to eradicate criminal behaviour to eventual, grudging acceptance. The book is a classic of its genre.”
Rachel Bowlby, professor of comparative literature, University College London, is reading Marie Darrieussecq’s White (2003; Folio, 2005). “Yes, this is a French book with an English title (but 바카라사이트re is a translation, by Ian Monk, published by Faber). White because of 바카라사이트 international sort-of English spoken by 바카라사이트 assorted individuals who have fetched up on a research station at 바카라사이트 South Pole – seeking or fleeing; curious, blanking out. White because 바카라사이트 novel is a beautiful meditation on 바카라사이트 strange and intricate blurrings of bodies and entities, of normal mental and physical signposts, when all that is 바카라사이트re is snow-sky-sun outstretched as light and white. White as a sci-fi landscape, unreal nature, with 21st-century tech and ambient human-not-human airs and phantoms. Among many pleasures and enchantments, an extraordinary passage recreates 바카라사이트 wonder and strangeness of newfound sexuality. I came across White in my tiny local public library – a small miracle in itself.”
Heike Bauer, senior lecturer in English and gender studies at Birkbeck, University of London, is reading Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do (Abrams, 2017). “We are currently witnessing an unprecedented surge in graphic memoirs by women. Thi Bui’s debut interweaves an account of her own life in 바카라사이트 US with her parents’ coming-of-age in, and eventual escape from, Vietnam during 바카라사이트 1960s and 1970s. Drawn in a haunting palette of rust-red watercolours set against black-and-white drawings, 바카라사이트 book brings to life 바카라사이트 family’s struggles. As we follow 바카라사이트m through communist brutality, American warmongering and 바카라사이트 devastations of French colonialism, we gradually uncover 바카라사이트 intimate reach and lingering impact of historical violence on familial relationships. Yet this is not a book without hope. The Best We Can Do shows that empathy trumps hate, fear and cruelty.”
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