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The Strange Resurrection of Lonesome Dove Original

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By Ross Barkan Verified
| Jacobin Verified
On TikTok, there are dozens and dozens of videos of men and women, many of them young, staring into the camera to talk earnestly about an eight-hundred-page novel that was published forty-one years ago. “I didn’t see the western phase of my life coming, but I’m glad we’re here,” one woman says. “I want to talk about Lonesome Dove. . . . ” And this is what they do.
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The Little Magazines Should Review More Books

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By Ross Barkan Verified
| rosselliotbarkan.com
Like many in the literary world, I read, with great interest, Naomi Kanakia’s recent exegesis on the “little” magazines like the Partisan Review and their various descendants, including n+1, The Drift, and The Point. These journals of literature and ideas have, in many instances, punched above their weight in the culture. Kanakia’s piece was a tremendous feat of research and analysis.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Very Tough Week

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By Ross Barkan Verified
| rosselliotbarkan.com
A couple of days ago, a former mayoral candidate posted gleefully that Zohran Mamdani’s might be imploding. The Democrat, former City Comptroller Scott Stringer, was reacting to a photo on Twitter/X that showed a protester holding a Hezbollah flag as well as images of slain leaders from Hezbollah and Hamas. The protester was seen at the anti-Zionist Oct. 7 rally near City Hall, where the most radical fringe of the pro-Palestine left gathered.
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