5LL #310: The West Bank, Writing, Borders, Grief, Neoliberalism
In the West Bank
Fathi Nimer, Jack Gross and Dylan Saba, Phenomenal World
The morning after these recent incursions into the territory began, we spoke with Fathi Nimer about the raids, conditions in the West Bank since October, and the history of annexation and occupation.
The Shapes of Grief
Christina Sharpe, The Yale Review
Each day I come to know even more clearly and urgently that we must commit to the fight for meaning. Not to concede the words, concepts, terms that we need to think and imagine and make livable lives.
Imagining a World of Open Borders
Jake Romm, The Nation
John Washington’s compelling new book lays out the case for abolishing the hellish idea of the border.
Fighting Like Hell
Sarah Jaffe and Hannah Proctor, The Baffler
Jaffe reminds us that although we walk with ghosts, grieving the losses of the past amid the ongoing injustices of the present can nourish and inform attempts to create a more caring society.
Against the People
Melinda Cooper and Malcolm Harris, n+1
Rather than understanding right-wing attacks on the government’s ability to tax and spend as univocally austere, Cooper shows how an unlikely alliance of financiers and anti-debt moralists came to synthesize a new approach, one that could countenance extraordinary public spending as long as it came in the form of subsidies for asset holders or missiles.