Reviews — February 28, 2018, 6:43 pm
The Whole Household of Man
On Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Hainish Novels and Stories
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Storybooks for Storybooks for Chinese children emphasize purpose, while American storybooks emphasize happiness.
The shooter discarded his AR-15 semiautomatic weapon, the model used in six of America’s ten deadliest mass shootings and referred to by the NRA as “America’s rifle,” and then fled to a nearby Walmart, where customers can buy rifles but cannot purchase music with lyrics that contain the word “fuck.”
Reviews — February 28, 2018, 6:43 pm
On Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Hainish Novels and Stories
Weekly Review — February 28, 2018, 12:01 pm
Following the year’s 30th mass shooting, which claimed the lives of 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida, lawmakers debated the best way to stop gun violence in American schools.[1][2][3][4] As the 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, and 35th mass shootings occurred, the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, which has repeatedly passed amendments to federal funding bills that prevent the Centers for Disease Control from directly researching the causes of gun violence, said the killings could not be addressed with a “magic bullet”; and US president Donald Trump, who has previously expressed a fear of sharks, blood, stairs, watching …
Art, Monday Gallery — February 26, 2018, 1:30 pm
Baby Girl and Baldwin’s Promise, mixed-media artworks by Deborah Roberts, whose work is on view this week at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, in San Francisco © Deborah Roberts. Courtesy Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
Weekly Review — February 20, 2018, 6:13 pm
In Parkland, Florida, a city ranked by the National Council for Home Safety and Security as the safest in the state, a 19-year-old man took an Uber to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, set off the fire alarm, and opened fire on students and faculty members, killing 17 people.[1][2] The shooter discarded his AR-15 semiautomatic weapon, the model used in six of America’s ten deadliest mass shootings and referred to by the NRA as “America’s rifle,” and then fled to a nearby Walmart, where customers can buy rifles and ammunition but cannot purchase music with lyrics that contain the word “fuck.”[3][4][5] US …
Art, Monday Gallery — February 19, 2018, 12:36 pm
Divided Light, a collage by Daphne Minkoff, whose work is on view this week at Linda Hodges Gallery, in Seattle. Courtesy the artist and Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle
Publisher's Note — February 13, 2018, 6:44 pm
“Why not mount a direct attack on economic discrimination and revive the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment?”
"Gun owners have long been the hypochondriacs of American politics. Over the past twenty years, the gun-rights movement has won just about every battle it has fought; states have passed at least a hundred laws loosening gun restrictions since President Obama took office. Yet the National Rifle Association has continued to insist that government confiscation of privately owned firearms is nigh. The NRA’s alarmism helped maintain an active membership, but the strategy was risky: sooner or later, gun guys might have realized that they’d been had. Then came the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, followed swiftly by the nightmare the NRA had been promising for decades: a dedicated push at every level of government for new gun laws. The gun-rights movement was now that most insufferable of species: a hypochondriac taken suddenly, seriously ill."