On the occasion of the awarding of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Rail Books section co-editors Elizabeth Lothian and Joseph Salvatore interviewed 2023 recipient Tyriek White about his debut novel We Are a Haunting. In their conversation, White discusses troubling the boundaries between Western ideas of life and death, writing a story about growing up in a predominantly Black and brown, blue-collar neighborhood, and how Brooklyn to him represents an attitude, a demeanor, and a set of principles.
In Isaiah Berlin’s famous essay “Two Concepts of Liberty,” he sets out his two conditions of negative and positive liberty. In short, negative liberty involves freedom from as a response to the question “what is the area within which the subject—a person or group of persons—is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons?”
Elizabeth Lothian, social media director at arts, culture and politics publication at The Brooklyn Rail, has been appointed to the post of books editor.…
suspected him of burglary and we re trying to make a citizens arrest. but on this time, one of them admitted arbery did not pose a threat. we ve also seen more we can protest across the country after kyle rittenhouse was acquitted a vulture. just take a look at the scenes on your screen here. people took their outreach to the streets in places like chicago, minneapolis and tampa, florida. let s get to the latest on both of these cases. nbc news correspondent stephanie stanton is in brunswick, georgia. elizabeth lothian is in kenosha, wisconsin. 70, let s start with. you what s the mood there like in georgia as this arbery case nears its end? s this arbery case nears morning to you, lindse. the mood surprisingly is very calm right now. it is quite different than what we saw in kenosha. even though this is a very racially charged case. last week, we heard from one of three defendants who are on trial here for murder. after that testimony, we did see one wanda cooper jones, the