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DC Books to PrisonsJournalist Jackie Snow wrote this amazing article for the Los Angeles Review of Books about <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> behind bars: <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-behind-bars-and-beyond-barriers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-behind-bars-and-beyond-barriers/</a>It touches on so many aspects of <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> in <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prisons</a>, from why books on yoga are okay but books on tai chi are not, to concerns about whether Colin Powell's autobiography complied with <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prison</a> rules.<a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/JackieSnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JackieSnow</a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/LAReviewOfBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LAReviewOfBooks</a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/LongRead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongRead</a>

Horror Lex®Working on a big update for the site, and we've reached the *10,000th* article/essay to be indexed there. Thanks on helping us with the milestone, Amanda. Feinman and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LAReviewofBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LAReviewofBooks</a> with "Hereditary and Horror Movie Mothers You Can’t Run Home To" from 2018. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/horrorfilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#horrorfilms</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/horrormovies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#horrormovies</a> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/hereditary-horror-movie-mothers-cant-run-home/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/hereditary-horror-movie-mothers-cant-run-home/</a>

Stelliform PressICYMI, last week <a href="https://bookstodon.com/@egconde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@egconde</a>'s Sordidez was on the front page of the LA Review of Books with a glowing and detailed review which situates the book within the speculative Latinx canon! Check out the article at <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tainofuturism-the-hope-for-a-better-future-on-e-g-condes-sordidez/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tainofuturism-the-hope-for-a-better-future-on-e-g-condes-sordidez/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/latinx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#latinx</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/indigenousfuturism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indigenousfuturism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climatefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/novella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novella</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lareviewofbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lareviewofbooks</a>

NapelsGeelExcellent Ihor Pomerantsev interview from <a href="https://det.social/tags/LAReviewofBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LAReviewofBooks</a> about <a href="https://det.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://det.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> , the mythos of the city, the work of Paul Celan, the value (or lack thereof) of poetry during wartime, and more. <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-is-the-secret-of-chernivtsi-a-conversation-with-igor-pomerantsev/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-is-the-secret-of-chernivtsi-a-conversation-with-igor-pomerantsev/</a>

jackhutton 🇺🇸<a href="https://mastodon.online/@GatekeepKen" class="u-url mention">@GatekeepKen</a> This got very little play because its so appalling, but, its part of the Manafort/Russia/Trump story : the Unpublished Portions of Andrea Manafort’s Hacked Texts February 18, 2019 By Maya Gurantz L.A. Review of Books <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kompromat-or-revelations-from-the-unpublished-portions-of-andrea-manaforts-hacked-texts/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kompromat-or-revelations-from-the-unpublished-portions-of-andrea-manaforts-hacked-texts/</a> Manafort is below scum. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paulmanafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#paulmanafort</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#manafort</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/andreamanafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#andreamanafort</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/lareviewofbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lareviewofbooks</a>

Cory OldweilerMy final <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> of the year is about “Offended Sensibilities,” Alisa Ganieva’s incredibly perceptive satire of contemporary Russian society, translated by Carol Apollonio, for <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/LAReviewofBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LAReviewofBooks</a>. <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/persecution-mania-on-alisa-ganievas-offended-sensibilities/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/persecution-mania-on-alisa-ganievas-offended-sensibilities/</a>

Maya GurantzI've also written a lot of essays on political/cultural issues, including this essay for the <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/lareviewofbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lareviewofbooks</a> about <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/carlandre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#carlandre</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/anamendieta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anamendieta</a>, and the <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/cult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cult</a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/malegenius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#malegenius</a> that's recently seeing the light of day again because of <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/helenmolesworth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#helenmolesworth</a>'s podcast <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/deathofanartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deathofanartist</a>.<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/carl-broke-something-on-carl-andre-ana-mendieta-and-the-cult-of-the-male-genius/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/carl-broke-something-on-carl-andre-ana-mendieta-and-the-cult-of-the-male-genius/</a>

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