Jacqueline Rose

Oct 29, 2024 | nybooks.com | Patricia J. Williams |Jacqueline Rose |Hari Kunzru

In the third installment of The New York Review of Books’s series of online events on the 2024 presidential election, held on October 17, 2024, award-winning writers and scholars Hari Kunzru, Jacqueline Rose, and Patricia Williams discussed race, gender, the psyche, and how the identity of the next president reflects the state of the nation. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

Oct 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Jacqueline Rose

Old men don’t die easy. At least not those who think they are on the verge of losing their grip on absolute power. If Biden took so long to withdraw from the presidential race, if Trump’s authority continues to rest, more and more precariously, on an untenable vision of national greatness, ad absurdum as one might say, it is because they are both making a wager against aging and dying—over which neither of them has any control.

Aug 20, 2024 | medium.com | Jacqueline Rose

It’s funny how time can drown you like a punch in the face. As a teenager about 80% of my personality was made up of the music I listened to, an ego constructed out of other peoples work, a list of “good” bands in place of anything substantial. If someone were to ask me what kind of person I was, I would have answered something like “punk/industrial/hard rock” or “I listen to Tool” or “some other third thing”.

Aug 31, 2023 | nybooks.com | Jacqueline Rose

In Familiar Stranger, Stuart Hall’s memoir (written in conversation with Bill Schwarz), which was published in 2017, three years after he died, Hall recalls a crucial sight on a London street in 1951, shortly after he had left Jamaica for Britain to take his place as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford.

Apr 20, 2023 | nybooks.com | Jacqueline Rose

C.P. Taylor’s deeply disturbing play Good asks if an ordinary individual can be relied on to resist the blandishments of an evil regime.