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, by Anna Malaika Tubbs (Flatiron). This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwinâthe mothers of, respectively, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Baldwinâwomen whose legacies, as Tubbs notes, have been overlooked. Using them as a window into the varieties of Black American experience, Tubbs finds that, though they came from vastly different backgrounds, there were important commonalities: each was passionate about Black progress, each instilled a sense of duty and possibility in her children, and each outlived her son. Tubbsâs book stands against the womenâs erasure, a monument to their historical importance. As Malcolm X put it, âAll our achievements are momâs.â ....
Wake up to the sound of an alarm clock you didn’t really need to set. Remember the day that lies ahead of you, and drift off again for a few minutes. Repeat. Slide your feet into a pair of slippers, or don’t, and shuffle to the kitchen to make coffee. Still in your pajamas, drink this coffee at your desk while looking over your work from the day before. Remove a comma from the last sentence you translated before going to bed. Put it back. Remember that you haven’t brushed your teeth yet. Read the next paragraph in the book you’re translating, twice. Just as the right phrase begins to take shape in your mind, go brush your teeth. Forget the phrase you’d come up with and abandon hope of recovering it. Let the caffeine kick in. Ride this momentum until you reach a difficult sentence, then rise mindlessly in search of a snack. Google the etymology of “secretion” and observe a shift in your targeted ads. Remove a comma from the first sentence you translated after lunch. P ....
Ann Levin This cover image released by Graywolf Press shows Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors. (Graywolf Press via AP) February 01, 2021 - 6:27 AM âWild Swims,â by Dorthe Nors (Graywolf Press) âHyggeâ is the Danish word for a sense of coziness and comfort that is supposedly characteristic of that Scandinavian country. In her latest collection of short stories, âWild Swims,â the Danish writer Dorthe Nors puts to rest any notion that her compatriots are happier or more content than the rest of us. Indeed, the story titled âHyggeâ starts out in a cozy sort of way with a woman making coffee and âone of those chocolate cakes that are soft in the middle.â But it quickly turns dark when the sneering, arrogant narrator fumes to himself about his decision to join the senior club where he met her because âas a bachelor I had to place my body at the disposal of all the cast-off women and their e ....
Features Tove Ditlevsen: Why it s time to discover Denmark s most famous literary outsider ‘The Billie Holliday of poetry’ was ignored by the male establishment, but her pioneering autofiction is finally being recognised around the world “I talk about my book which has been returned from Gyldendal with a strange response, insinuating that I have been reading too much Freud,” Tove Ditlevsen writes of a publisher rejection. “I don’t even know who Freud is.” Bleak, honest, wryly funny: the Danish author’s three-part memoir, Childhood, Youth, Dependency charts Tove Ditlevsen’s emergence from a working-class corner of Copenhagen to becoming one of its best-known literary stars. By the time of her death at 58 in 1976, she had published 29 books, having published her first poetry collection while barely out of her teens. Ditlevsen’s work has been adapted for the stage, screen and even the pop charts; her long-running agony aunt column has re ....