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Elizabeth Alexander’s new guide, “The Trayvon Generation,” grew out of a broadly mentioned essay of the same name that she wrote for The New Yorker in 2020. The guide explores themes of race, class and justice and their intersections with artwork. On this week’s podcast, Alexander discusses the consequences of video expertise on our publicity to and understanding of violence and vulnerability, and contrasts the way in which her technology was introduced up with the lives of youthful individuals right this moment.
“If you consider among the language of the civil rights motion, ‘We will overcome’ is hopeful,” Alexander says. “And in case you cease there and take that actually, I’d say that’s what my childhood was about. However after that comes ‘sometime.’ Nicely, I believe what we’re seeing now’s that we now have not but arrived at that day.”
Lucasta Miller visits the podcast to debate her new biography, “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.”
“I believe the favored imaginative and prescient is of him as this quite type of ethereal creature, a type of delicate flower, the embodiment of loveliness, a spiritualized essence,” Miller says. “What I actually wished to do was to get again one thing of the actual flesh-and-blood Keats, as an actual sophisticated human being. I’m not making an attempt to undermine him in any approach. I’m simply making an attempt to make him extra complicated. And I really like him all the identical — I really like him much more, consequently.”
Additionally on this week’s episode, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai speak about books they’ve not too long ago reviewed. John Williams is the host.
Listed below are the books mentioned by The Instances’s critics this week:
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