Los Angeles This article is more than 2 months old‘Disgusted and horrified’: protesters in LA stage sit-in urging Gaza ceasefireThis article is more than 2 months oldMore than 1,000 people gather in the rain, shutting down a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard
Hundreds of demonstrators in Los Angeles shut down a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard on Wednesday afternoon in a protest demanding Joe Biden and US lawmakers call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Read More...
OpinionRace This article is more than 1 year oldI have been called a coconut more times than I can count. It is painful, but I understand itThis article is more than 1 year oldElla McLeodPeople suggest that I am somehow a race traitor because I love Shakespeare and listen to Taylor Swift. But I am enormously proud of my blackness
I like listening to Taylor Swift; I love period dramas; I am enormously proud of my blackness – and I have been called a “coconut” more times than I can count. Read More...
Book of the dayFiction in translationReviewAn atrocity by Israeli troops begins a sophisticated, oblique novel about empathy and the urge to right wrongs
In Adania Shibli’s third novel, a young Arab woman is raped and murdered by Israeli troops in 1949. The difficulty of portraying the atrocity lies at the heart of a highly sophisticated narrative that pitilessly explores the limits of empathy and the desire to right (or write) historical wrongs by giving voice to the voiceless. Read More...
