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Fire in Cairo.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cHow many reasons have I for going to Moscow at once! How can I bear the boredom of seven months of winter in this place? \u2026 Am I to be reduced to defending myself\u2014I who have always attacked? Such a role is unworthy of me \u2026 I am not used to playing it \u2026 It is not in keeping with my genius.\u201d Thus Napoleon in 1812 in Lithuania, on the eve of his disastrous Russian campaign, which would destroy the French army and cost more than a hundred thousand French lives. The whole time, Napoleon\u2019s aide-de-camp Philippe-Paul, Count de S\u00e9gur, was taking notes. His inside account of the debacle\u2014now known in English as Defeat<\/a><\/em>\u2014was a best seller when it appeared in 1824 and became a key source for War and Peace<\/em>. Readers will recognize scenes from Tolstoy\u2019s novel, but S\u00e9gur\u2019s Napoleon is, if anything, even more vivid, because S\u00e9gur loves him and believes in him even when his genius lets him down. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

The carnival that erupted in Cairo\u2019s Midan Tahrir in 2011, and continued in one form or another for two and half years, has spawned any number of books and films. Maybe because the initial skirmishes were so chaotic or because the outcome of the revolts is still unclear\u2014although a Thermidorian reaction now stretches into the foreseeable future\u2014a documentary approach to this history has often seemed like the best one. Matthew Connor\u2019s book of photographs,\u00a0Fire in Cairo<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>goes in a wonderfully different direction. Taken during the spring of 2013, prior the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, Connor\u2019s photos are aslant and at times surreal. The violence of the revolts is present, even omnipresent, but as a mood rather than something concrete to look at. His shots, which have no captions, are full of fog, lasers, and common Cairene objects made mysterious through close-ups. There is also a gallery of portraits, many of whose subjects have their faces covered\u2014by veils, helmets, or homemade gas masks. The effect of the book, for me, was to make the revolution strange again; it brought me back to that exciting time when none of us knew quite what we were looking at. \u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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Boyd McDonald\u2019s\u00a0Cruising the\u00a0Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV<\/a><\/em>\u00a0landed on my desk this week, and if the title didn\u2019t hook me, then the cover image of a sassy young man in tight-whities and white high-tops sure helped.\u00a0McDonald looks every bit the tweed Ivy Leaguer in his\u00a01949 Harvard yearbook photo, but by the sixties, he\u2019d ripped off the conservative postwar band-aid to reveal the sordid desires underneath. Originally published in 1985,\u00a0Cruising\u00a0<\/em>gathers\u00a0McDonald\u2019s reviews written between 1983 and 1985 about films made between 1936 and the early eighties; the short\u00a0feuilletons\u00a0are\u00a0gossipy, erudite, political, and largely about genitals on-screen. (McDonald also edited a series of chapbooks called\u00a0Straight to Hell<\/em>\u00a0comprising \u201ctrue homosexual experiences.\u201d) His writing is\u00a0feisty and funny, as when he levels a critique of Ronald Reagan in\u00a0John Loves Mary\u00a0<\/em>(1949): after observing Ronnie\u2019s rather feminine legs on display in the film, McDonald moves on to the \u201cbig fat tits\u201d Reagan developed later, which \u201csupplied an additional incentive to make himself feel manly by issuing, as President of the United States, an anti-homosexual statement. What a hero.\u201d \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kmart 30th Anniversary Program<\/p><\/div>\n

When Mark Davis worked at a Kmart in the early nineties, corporate HQ sent prerecorded \u201cKmart Radio\u201d (call sign KMRT, natch) cassettes to be played storewide. Davis had the good sense to hold onto these, and now he\u2019s made them available online<\/a> in an archive called \u201cAttention Kmart Shoppers.\u201d I know nineties nostalgia is irksomely de rigueur now, but there\u2019s something special about these cassettes\u2014I say this having gotten through about five hours of them. They\u2019re the primary documents of a commercial culture at an uncomfortable distance from our own, neither near nor far. Each contains a mix of adult contemporary hits (Wilson Phillips<\/a> fans, you\u2019re in for a treat) and cornpone advertisements. We\u2019ve come to associate nineties ads with Gen X disaffection and irony; Kmart gives the lie to that. \u201cCapture those memorable moments of Aunt Maude and Uncle Jake in the egg-throwing contest,\u201d says an ad for the photo center. \u201cYour son catching his first fish, or maybe the whole family taking it easy in the backyard.\u201d Another invites shoppers to buy a \u201cShow Your Colors T-shirt\u201d to help fund a Star Spangled Banner monument. Listening to them feels, for better and for worse, like mainlining the past. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong>
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Chrissy Hynde, not caring.<\/p><\/div>\n

Chrissie Hynde, the Pretenders\u2019 frontwoman, has written a memoir, and she doesn\u2019t give a shit. In a recent interview with NPR<\/a>, she refuses to talk about episodes from the book, Reckless<\/a><\/em>: \u201cCan I just not repeat stories \u2026 Can we talk about things outside of that? Is that possible?\u201d When asked about her role as a feminist icon, she said, \u201cI\u2019m not here to embolden anyone.\u201d Hynde insists that she\u2019s merely telling her story and that her music was just that: \u201cIt\u2019s just a three-minute rock song,\u201d she said of \u201cBrass in Pocket.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s as loaded [as you\u2019re saying].\u201d It\u2019s easy to see her callousness as disingenuous, but the media is filled with flashy headlines, gotcha sound bites, and placating, crowd-pleasing interview questions. One gets the sense that Hynde was promised an honest conversation somewhere along the way, and it\u2019s not one she feels she\u2019s getting. \u2014Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to a friend at the office, I was introduced to a new anthology of South African verse, In the Heat of the Shadows<\/a><\/em>. Few anthologies celebrate the country\u2019s diverse and luminous voices with the \u00e9lan of this one, in which young and older poets mingle to create an ars poetica <\/em>for a society ardently trying to reset its foundations. They bring attention to the nation\u2019s crisis for equal education (\u201cbare children with chapped lips can\u2019t go to school\u201d), economic inequality, venal patronage politics (\u201cnotwithstanding that you had something to fight for,\u2009\/\u2009something greater than clothes and a car,\u2009\/\u2009more lithe, more radiant inside its own skin\u2009\/\u2009You were so beautiful then\u201d), and gender violence (\u201cHis hands\u2009\/\u2009were two chickens pecking at the hard seeds on my breasts. I told him\u2009\/\u2009to leave my mouth alone\u201d) to name a few. Shadows<\/em> testifies to the importance of poetry in the work of remembering and healing. In the words of the South African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, poetry breaks \u201cthrough all the silences\u2009\/\u2009in the crevices of our turbulent memory.\u201d \u2014Joshua Maserow<\/strong><\/p>\n

I spent this week aspiring to become a reader of Clarice Lispector. On Monday, I bought The Hour of the Star<\/a><\/em>, and, not quite having had time to dig into it, I\u2019ve spent most of the week admiring the paratext of this latest edition, translated by Benjamin Moser: the day-glo cover, with its starburst of bright orange and highlighter magenta; the typeface; and, of course, the thirteen titles Lispector has given this book: Singing the Blues<\/em>, or She Doesn\u2019t Know How to Scream<\/em>, or Whistling in the Dark Wind<\/em>, or Discreet Exit Through the Back Door<\/em>, or \u2026\u00a0 In her only televised interview, Lispector says of her early reading, \u201cI chose books by their titles, and not their authors, because I didn\u2019t know anything.\u201d Finally, I\u2019m enchanted by Moser\u2019s suggestion in the afterword: \u201cParadoxically, the better one\u2019s Portuguese, the more difficult it is to read Clarice Lispector. The foreigner with a basic knowledge of Romance grammar and vocabulary can read The Hour of the Star<\/em> with ease.\u201d I think if I\u2019m hoping not only to read Lispector but to read like <\/em>Lispector, I might be off to a good start. \u2014Hannah LeClair<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHow many reasons have I for going to Moscow at once! How can I bear the boredom of seven months of winter in this place? \u2026 Am I to be reduced to defending myself\u2014I who have always attacked? 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