Ari Brostoff

3 weeks ago | lithub.com | Brittany Allen |Ari Brostoff

Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small press book that they love. The only rule of this game is that there are no rules, except that the books we recommend must have been published, at some time, and in some place, by a small press.

Sep 4, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Ari Brostoff

The following conversation was held on August 28, 2024, a few days after the participants took part in protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The discussion is structured around six theses (in bold), which we circulated amongst ourselves in advance. This transcript has been edited and condensed for publication. Nolan Perla-Ward: There was an expectation that Chicago in 2024 would register the world-historical quality of ’68. That did not happen.

Aug 7, 2023 | truthdig.com | Lisa Borst |Ari Brostoff |Cecilia Corrigan |Jon Dieringer |A. S. Hamrah |Arielle Isack | +3 more

When a movie becomes a mass culture phenomenon, like Barbie, any negative criticism of it runs the risk of coming off hysterical. Any meanness toward it becomes the mirror version of the reactions of fans who see the movie in the theater again and again, who cry during certain scenes each time, and who tell the world about it on social media with a great sense of pride and purpose, or even with a certain amount of shock about its power over them.

Jul 21, 2023 | jewishcurrents.org | Ari Brostoff

In his epochal 1903 essay collection The Souls of Black Folk, the scholar and political leader W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that “few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.” Du Bois noted that for those living under slavery, emancipation appeared as “one divine event” signaling “the end of all doubt and disappointment.” Yet the end of slavery did not in fact bring about true emancipation.

Jun 9, 2022 | jewishcurrents.org | Ari Brostoff