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Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship.
publicbooks.org Joined January 2012
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“What is the point of an allegory that repels interpretation? Over 150 years after The Adolescent’s publication, this question captures much of what makes it—and Dostoevsky—still worth reading.” buff.ly/SnjuuaB
www.publicbooks.org B-sides: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Adolescent” - Public Books “It is among Dostoevsky’s wildest, sloppiest, least-loved works—and there has never been a better time to read it.”
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New at PB: Benjamin Mangrum and John Plotz ponder what makes science fiction funny in a new episode of Recall This Book. buff.ly/dFnhDoC
www.publicbooks.org The Obsolescing Knowledge Worker: Benjamin Mangrum on Computation as Comedy - Public Books “Computing technology, AI, these kinds of technologies are just accelerating the obsolescence of our phenomenological categories, the ways we make sense of our experience.”
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“Where do I meet the writer? How do I stay true to myself?”

New at PB: In partnership with @NovelDialogue, Imbolo Mbue discusses the ways she stays true to her writing despite industry pressures. buff.ly/o1qITo1
www.publicbooks.org “Thank god for editors”: Imbolo Mbue and Sarah Dimick - Public Books “And all I can say is that after writing this novel, I am in awe of people who can forgive.”
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In 1926, theorist Antonio Gramsci was imprisoned in fascist Italy. He spent the rest of his life in custody. Here, Sharad Chari, David Kalman, Robyn Marasco, Sara Salem, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Alberto Toscano discuss his incarceration and political thinking.buff.ly/tl1s2Rb
www.publicbooks.org Gramsci’s Imprisonment @ 100 - Public Books “The old is dying," wrote the politician and intellectual from within a fascist prison, "and the new cannot be born.”