Eliot Weinberger

Dec 16, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Eliot Weinberger

They came from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips. They came from professional football and World Wrestling Entertainment. They came from daytime talk shows and reality television. They were ‘straight out of central casting’, as the future president said. Some of the women resembled his daughter and some of the women resembled his wife. None of the men resembled him.

Sep 13, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Eliot Weinberger

Poor Don.​ He thought it would be an easy golf-cart ride back to the White House, rolling over the recumbent body of Sleepy Joe. Then the Dems pulled a switcheroo and suddenly he was faced with a middle-of-the-roader without much of a damaging paper trail, whose demeanour was the unlikely combination of tough prosecutor and warm human. Worse, she was a woman.

Aug 10, 2024 | tricycle.org | Rebecca Wilson |Eliot Weinberger |Kusala Bhikshu |Nelson Foster

Urban Dharma: 20 Years of Buddhist Stories from an L.A. City Monkby Kusala Bhikshu and Rebecca WilsonBlack Boat Media, April 2024, 229 pp., $17.00, paperKusala Bhikshu’s colorful account covers twenty years of “doing Buddhism rather than being Buddhism.” Kusala travels around Los Angeles by motorcycle and serves as a chaplain at a prison, a juvenile detention camp, and a hospital. He is also a chaplain for an Orange County police department.

Aug 1, 2024 | ciderpressreview.com | Eliot Weinberger |Sarah Snyder

Reviewed by Dale CottinghamWhen Brian Turner, poet, editor, holder of fellowships, author of five poetry collections, including the recent The Dead Peasant’s Handbook (Alice James Books, 2023), is definitive, we have a duty to take note. For in this current disturbance we call America, we have come to be jaundiced, expecting few things to be joyful.

Apr 4, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Eliot Weinberger

By Eliot Weinberger April 4, 2024 For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Eliot Weinberger’s “The Ceaseless Murmuring of Innumerable Bees” appears in our new Spring issue, no. 247. How did this poem start for you? Was it with an image, an idea, a phrase, or something else? First, I doubt it qualifies as a poem.