This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter

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An excellent book from a perceptive and unshowy writer... The men Puntí writes about live on the edges, but for the most part, they've put themselves there, and can't figure out how to extract themselves. They chiefly have only themselves to blame for their troubles, although most of them either don't realize it or choose not to. They're maddening characters, and Puntí regards them with sympathy, but never valorizes their usually unfortunate decisions. It's an accomplished book, filled with bone-dry humor and incisive observations about people who desperately need to connect, but have no idea how. It's also a powerful literary reminder that nostalgia and magical thinking both threaten the way we relate to one another, and to ourselves." -- NPR Right, right, we’ve been together for years.” He doesn’t want to tell the truth. Mai would see it as a defeat, and there’s no need. Then they say goodbye and go their separate ways, but at the last minute he stops and shouts, “Hey, Toni, just a matter of curiosity: Do you still play bass?”

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An excellent book from a perceptive and unshowy writer... The men Puntí writes about live on the edges, but for the most part, they've put themselves there, and can't figure out how to extract themselves. They chiefly have only themselves to blame for their troubles, although most of them either don't realize it or choose not to. They're maddening characters, and Puntí regards them with sympathy, but never valorizes their usually unfortunate decisions. It's an accomplished book, filled with bone-dry humor and incisive observations about people who desperately need to connect, but have no idea how. It's also a powerful literary reminder that nostalgia and magical thinking both threaten the way we relate to one another, and to ourselves.” — NPR What underpins my opposition is seeing people first as individuals, not as representatives of their race. This is not to argue that I don’t see race, or that race doesn’t matter. It is to argue that to define someone exclusively by their race is to acquiesce to the vision of racists. I will not stand by that. He’s about to cross Carrer del Rosselló when he sees the famous journalist Joan de Sagarra going by, looking like he hasn’t had dinner and gloomy and mad at the world or his neighborhood, or maybe mentally writing his next article in which he’ll be mad at the world or his neighborhood. He knows that Sagarra lives around here because he’s said so in more than one of his Sunday pieces. In a playground a little farther down, a small boy frenziedly climbs up and hurtles down a slide while a girl makes sure he doesn’t hurt himself when he hits the bottom. He’s about four or five and you can see he’s hyper. His shouts echo in the absence of traffic. The girl, who must be his mother, is wearing a full-length turquoise sari with silver embroidery glittering under the streetlights. He watches her for a few seconds, guessing that she’s not yet twenty-five and noting that she doesn’t seem at all bothered that it’s so late. Other children are at home sleeping, and this one has the whole playground to himself. He slows down, still looking with a touch of envy at the two figures, which seem to have been teleported from another faraway place at another time of day. A few meters farther along, he gets what’s happening. On the other side of the street is a small Pakistani supermarket, and it’s still open. From the doorway, a man is watching the movements of the mother and child. Get the kid tired and he’ll drop off straightaway. A man recalls a past love as he strolls through the lonely streets of Barcelona. A hitchhiker on the outskirts of the city of Vic carries his secrets in a briefcase. In northern Catalonia, a villager receives letters from a long-estranged brother and grapples with how to respond. Then there’s the man who wants to surprise his wife with a trip to Paris, only to swap it for a solitary cruise. Not sure I agree with bowie copying ferry I think they are quite removed from each other in style any similarity is due to 80,s production. Gotta say ferry faired better during the decade he has never lost his style and cool where Bowie sadly lost it totally. Never thought I would see the great dame on roller skates but it happened in 87 cripes what a year. This is not america is a gem I bought the 12 inch must did it out as cannot remember if it is longer?Jordi Puntí is not only Catalonia's most important writer, but he is also one of the funniest, most perceptive writers in all of Europe. This Is Not America is a tour-de-force story collection set on both sides of the Atlantic." — Gary Shteyngart I was listening to the original cast recording from Lazarus for the first time today, and when this song came on, I actually started crying. The new version of this song is just incredibly haunting and beautiful; in fact, if someone can get Sophia Anne Caruso to record cover versions of every single David Bowie song ever recorded, I’d be all in favour of it. Her version of Life on Mars? is gorgeous as well. UK: Rishi Sunak hosts talks with Kamala Harris, vice-president of the US, at No 10, followed by a private dinner; Harris also delivers a policy speech on the future of AI at the US embassy in London; Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, speaks at the annual conference of the King’s Fund, a health think tank; start of Movember, the moustache-growing charity event held during November each year to raise funds and awareness for men’s health.

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Identity politics is another issue that can cause a divide and is a topic that Tomiwa Owolade has written extensively on. In his debut book ‘This Is Not America’, he looks at how a split away from American views on race and identity might help build an anti-racist agenda in Britain. We caught up with him to discuss the book, his freelance work and diversity within the media industry. TIMES HEALTH COMMISSION Suicidal children have to ‘make several attempts’ before accessing NHS mental health services Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe. Searing short stories... Puntí is unafraid to explore the uncomfortable rifts of his characters' lives, particularly the lies they tell themselves to embolden or confront their justifications of their situations." -- BooklistThe second section is more satisfying, as Owolade draws on his personal experiences and those of others to craft a nuanced, compassionate and surprisingly optimistic view of race relations in Britain.

This Is Not America: Why Black Lives In Britain Matter This Is Not America: Why Black Lives In Britain Matter

Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books. When he gets to the Plaça de Tetuan, he hesitates for a few seconds, wondering whether to go round it to cross Gran Via or go straight through it. The iron gates of the park are still open and, though there’s not much light inside, he goes in, because he has to keep the line of the I straight. In the shadows he can see three or four people talking in a ring, keeping an eye on their dogs, which are sniffing and chasing each other up and down the patches of grass. In the best-lit part, near the central group of sculptures, three adolescents are playing catch, trying to keep the ball in the air. They’re shouting, yelling insults if one of them fumbles and drops it. A bit farther on, in the stripy shadows of palms and banana trees, he spots the silhouette of a couple lying on the ground but, walking past, realizes that, no, it’s a hobo sleeping on a bed of cardboard and plastic bags. He keeps going and, just when he’s about to leave from the far side of the square, he hears someone calling his name. It has now been a few years since the George Floyd disruption, and Owolade’s book also serves as a calm account of why Britain lost its head during that time. He’s right to unravel our complex relationship with America: here in Britain, we need to keep an eye on the reality of racism, but we must realise that class, geography, family and agency are the key factors in levelling up our society. In the final chapter, he ends by writing: The term cultural cringe makes an early appearance in Tomiwa Owolade’s This Is Not America. Coined by the Australian critic AA Phillips to express the fawning relationship of some of his fellow citizens to traditional British culture, Owolade believes it applies to the attitudes of many contemporary Britons towards the US. America is often accepted as the primary shaper of truths. Its landscapes, myths and histories can seem closer to us than our own. Like it or not, we’re all, to some degree, in its thrall.The first foreign nationals have been allowed to leave the Gaza Strip after weeks of being trapped in the territory. In the past few minutes, foreign passport holders were seen entering the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt, and cars have also been passing through. They are the first people to... The first foreign nationals have been allowed to leave the Gaza Strip after weeks of being trapped in the territory. In the past few minutes, foreign passport holders were seen entering the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt, and cars have also been passing through. They are the first people to... The first foreign nationals have been allowed to leave the Gaza Strip after weeks of being trapped in the territory. In the... MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) Gonna get wasted.” Proud and solemn, Toni shows him two bottles of cheap vodka they must have bought five minutes ago. His roguish expression triggers the memory that Mai couldn’t stand Toni Forajido, that she used to say that he was a poseur and a moron. “We worked hard today, so we earned it. Yeah, Christa?” Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and New Statesman

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Some of the titles you write for on a freelance basis include the New Statesman, The Times and The Observer. What was the process like in getting commissioned by these titles and how can aspiring journalists get commissioned? Article was long but i read it seem to be interesting. I think the topic was truly controversal……this is not america…lol Thanks for the thorough article. Btw, while I think you have the correct chords (Gm-Dm/F-Ebmaj7-Dm/F), that pattern is I-V-VI-V, not I-IV-VI-IV. Agreed … I don’t think either of them would have consciously copied the other, it was more a matter of inspiration — one hearing the other’s stuff and saying, hm, that sounds pretty good, maybe I should try some urban sophisticate-contemporary stuff. After the Tonight album I pretty much tuned out/was unaware of Bowie until Never Let Me Down, so this is fascinating reading for me. A very good song that I only became aware of a few years ago. Now I’m wondering if Bowie’s choosing to team up with the jazzy Metheny was inspired by Bryan Ferry’s solo outings around this time, which have a similar “cool AOR” vibe to them. Stuff like “Don’t Stop the Dance,” etc. Those two seemed to be trading shots for much of their careers.

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A man recalls a past love as he strolls through the lonely streets of Barcelona. A hitchhiker on the outskirts of the city of Vic carries his secrets in a briefcase. In northern Catalonia, a villager receives letters from a long-estranged brother and grapples with how to respond. Then there's the man who wants to surprise his wife with a trip to Paris, only to swap it for a solitary cruise. Falcon was a somber anomaly at the height of the Reagan years, when many films were refighting Vietnam (spoiler: this time, We Win), fervidly imagining Soviet or terrorist invasions of the heartland, or equating the Grenada invasion with Korea and Vietnam. Akin to the weary spymastering of John LeCarre’s Smiley novels, Falcon is a pair of jaded innocents bungling things abroad, two pawns given a few spaces of movement on the board before being swept off. Hutton’s Boyce is an idealist as well as something of a pompous fool; Penn’s Lee is a wretched user whose comeuppance at the hand of the Mexican police is awful and tragic. Sometimes the invisible word was related with the street they’d started out from, or they used the game to comment on everyday matters with monosyllabic shopping-list words—“juice,” “bread,” “milk”—but there were also days when they didn’t feel like saying anything or were in a bad mood, and then they walked separately, wherever they wanted, randomly filling the city with unintelligible scribbles. From the acclaimed, prize-winning Catalonian author of the novel Lost Luggage, a collection of nine masterful short stories about adulthood, heartbreak, and outsiders in search of their place in the world.