Steven Shaviro

If Hegseth hates “beardos”, does that include J D Vance?

I loved Gregg Araki’s latest film, I WANT YOUR SEX

New blog entry: Wole Talabi's forthcoming great novel THE FIST OF MEMORY www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2040

Roddey Reid on Trump: medium.com/@roddeyreid/...

I have posted a review of Kailee Pedersen’s great novel THE MINIMALIST on my blog. BlueSky is not letting me post the link properly, but if you go to my blog www dot shaviro dot com slash Blog, you will see the review as the top entry.

My review of a new biography of J G Ballard: lareviewofbooks.org/article/jg-b...

New blog posting, on short stories by Peter Watts: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2034

I LOVE BOOSTERS is totally awesome.

I went to a movie theater to see the new Boots Riley movie, but it could not be shown due to, ahem, computer issues.

New blog posting: Ray Nayler's new novel, PALACES OF THE CROW. www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2027

Re-upping my review of Kim Choyeop's story collection IF WE CANNOT GO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT, now that it has been officially published in English translation (I read an advance copy). shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2014

New blog entry: an appreciation of Molly Crabapple's new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country. www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2023

New blog posting, on THE BOOK LOVERS by Steve Aylett: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2020

If the dog killer doesn’t work out for you, you can always go to an MMA fighter instead.

Don’t forget Markwayne Mullins’ brothers: Brucewayne Mullins, Johnwayne Mullins, and Newtonwayne Mullins.

Roddey Reid's Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying - now also available as an audiobook: roddeyreid.squarespace.com/new-book-1

So the UK arrests a royal for Epstein, and our govt keeps covering it up and not arresting ANYONE and protecting Donald Seems like maybe the spirit of 1776 switched places NO KINGS

New blog posting: on TRANSMENTATION | TRANSGRESSION, a new (forthcoming) science fiction novel by the consortium of authors who use the collective pseudonym "Darkly Lem". shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2017

New blog entry, on South Korean science fiction writer Kim Choyeop, whose first volume of short stories will soon be published in English: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2014

Thoughts upon reading Jacek Dukaj's monumental novel ICE: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2011

RIP Udo Kier.

I finished reading THE ROSE FIELD. It marks a milestone, as I now have read through @philippullman.bsky.social Philip Pullman's six volumes about Lyra Belacqua. All wonderful, and much needed in these dark times. www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2004

New blog posting: on Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2006

New blog entry, on Philip Pullman: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2004

Ralph Nader interviews Roddey Reid about Roddey's new book on political bullying: www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/the-era-of...

New blog posting: a review of Jo Isaacson's brilliant new book on the 1962 movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1999

Roddey Reid’s book, now revised and expanded, is the best text I have found that not only grasps the full meaning of Trump, but places him in the context of American business culture. Be afraid. roddeyreid.squarespace.com/new-book-1

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Just made a Facebook posting that may get me into trouble (as has happened to me once before). But I felt like I had to say it.

New blog posting: on Cassandra Khaw's The Library at Hellebore: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1996

Book review: MINDS IN TRANSIT by Joan Slonczewski shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1993

New blog entry: Charlie Jane Anders' forthcoming novel, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1990

I wrote a brief review of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new science fiction novel SHROUD: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1987

Roddey Reid on political intimidation and bullying in the age of Trump: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPY8...

"(T)he retreat of morals in the presence of music, and of dancing, and the general gaiety of the theatre, is a fact very interesting to philosophers and very puzzling to the official censors." -- A.N. Whitehead, 'Modes of Thought'

New blog entry: Donald Trump is not conscious shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1979

New book review: Adrian Tchaikovsky's sf novel SHROUD: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Just signed a contract to publish a book on the movie NEPTUNE FROST in Bloomsbury's Timecodes: Films MInute By Minute series. @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social

This is the second time USAID/State is punishing people revealing the truth that Marco is killing children. They're quite desperate to hide this fact, as if the reporters in Africa or court declarations are making it up.

RIP Souleymane Cissé, great film director from Mali. HIs 1987 YEELEN, the only film of his I have seen, is extraordinary. He made other films as well, which I hope to get a chance to see.

"Rolling back 'DEI policies'... is really just a code for no longer hiring Black people." -- Elie Mystal

David Johansen aged with grace from his rock star glory into a position as one of popular music's most jovial preservationists. Now he needs help. My heart hurst knowing of his struggles; he's one of the greats www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...

Trump’s policy is best understood as inverse affirmative action: he seeks to punish and penalize any business that fails to exclusively hire and favor white men.