Month: February 2024
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Weekly Wanderings: February 25, 2024
Yesterday marked two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I don’t have anything deep or profound to say about that, except: the reality of living through two years of fear, uncertainty, danger, death, loss, and struggle is something that I know I cannot understand from afar. I try—through reading and listening to the people…
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Weekly Wanderings: February 18, 2024
Recommendations The Death of Alexei Navalny Even behind bars Navalny was a real threat to Putin, because he was living proof that courage is possible, that truth exists, that Russia could be a different kind of country. For a dictator who survives thanks to lies and violence, that kind of challenge was intolerable. Now Putin…
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Weekly Wanderings: February 12, 2024
新年快乐 and 恭喜发财 to one and all as we kick off the Year of the Dragon. At the Association for Asian Studies #AsiaNow blog, I have two new interviews with authors to share: And at Goodreads, I reviewed The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen, a compelling and beautifully written novel about the members of…
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Weekly Wanderings: February 4, 2024
Yesterday I got to attend a preview of a new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts, “Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971.” Previously on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, “Regeneration” is now in Detroit until late June, and I hope it will travel to museums elsewhere. Telling the many stories…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 