{"product_id":"liberties-journal-of-culture-and-politics-volume-ii-issue-1-paperback","title":"Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeon Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCeleste Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e , \u003cb\u003eMamtimin Ala\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eLiberties \u003ci\u003eis THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberties, \u003c\/i\u003ea journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. \u003cbr\u003eLiberties 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.\u003cbr\u003eThis issue of \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e includes: new work from Nobel Prize winner \u003cb\u003eMario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/b\u003e; drawings by \u003cb\u003eLeonard Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e published for the first time; \u003cb\u003eMamtimin Ala's\u003c\/b\u003e essay on China's genocide of the Uyghurs; \u003cb\u003eJaroslaw Anders'\u003c\/b\u003e analysis of the crisis in Belarus; \u003cb\u003eCass R. Sunstein\u003c\/b\u003e on liberalism inebriated; \u003cb\u003eRichard Thompson Ford\u003c\/b\u003e on what slavery does and does not explain; \u003cb\u003eSean Wilentz\u003c\/b\u003e on the historical strategy of the Republican Party; \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Moser\u003c\/b\u003e writes about translation as a form of tourism in literary life;\u003cb\u003e Jonathan Zimmerman\u003c\/b\u003e on the scandal of college teaching; \u003cb\u003eMark Lilla\u003c\/b\u003e on cults of innocence and their victims; \u003cb\u003eHelen Vendler\u003c\/b\u003e on \u003cb\u003eAdrienne Rich\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eHolly Brewer\u003c\/b\u003e on race and enlightenment; \u003cb\u003eDavid Thomson\u003c\/b\u003e asks, What shall we watch now?; \u003cb\u003eCeleste Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e (managing editor) on the legend of \u003cb\u003eAlice Neel\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eLeon Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e (editor) on Zionism's beautiful stubbornness of survival; and new poetry from \u003cb\u003eAnge Mlinko\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eShaul Tchernikhovsky\u003c\/b\u003e, translated by \u003cb\u003eRobert Alter\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeon Wieseltier is the editor of \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eCeleste Marcus is the managing editor of \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eMamtimin Ala was born in East Turkistan in 1971. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWorse than Death: Reflections on the Uyghur Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eRichard Thompson Ford teaches law at Stanford University and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Relations Worse\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eMario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. This essay was translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.\u003cbr\u003eJaroslaw Anders is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eBetween Fire and Sleep: Essays on Modern Polish Poetry and Prose\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eSean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNo Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eAnge Mlinko teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her new collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eVenice\u003c\/i\u003e, will appear next year.\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Moser is a writer and translator living in Amsterdam. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eSontag: Her Life and Work\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eJonathan Zimmerman is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His new book \u003ci\u003eFree Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn \u003c\/i\u003ewas published this year.\u003cbr\u003eLeonard 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 \u003ci\u003eLiars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in the Age of Deception\u003c\/i\u003e. Mark Lilla is Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stillborn God \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future Liberal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eHelen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University and the author of many books on poetry.\u003cbr\u003eHolly Brewer teaches history at the University of Maryland and is the author of \u003ci\u003eBy Birth or Consent: Children, Law and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eShaul 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. \u003cbr\u003eDavid Thomson is the author of many books on film, most recently \u003ci\u003eA Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 391\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767640523040,"sku":"9781735718743","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4db95a48711b0b10329d4772dcc7ea30.webp?v=1780314111","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/liberties-journal-of-culture-and-politics-volume-ii-issue-1-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}