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Before crucial holiday season, Nintendo struggles as Sony shines

October 31, 2018

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Adieu, home button—Apple’s new iPad Pros have nearly edge-to-edge screens, FaceID

October 31, 2018

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Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini

October 31, 2018

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Apple updates MacBook Air with Retina display, Touch ID

October 31, 2018

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Puppy Cube mini-review: 720p limits the potential, but it works surprisingly well

October 31, 2018

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Introducing Messenger Kids!

October 31, 2018

This post is sponsored by Messenger Kids and SheKnows Media One of the hardest things about not living in the same city as all of our friends and family is missing everyday celebrations like birthdays and graduations. Thankfully, 21st century technology keeps us connected with those we care about, despite the distance. Up until now, though, we haven’t been comfortable letting the kids using online communication apps without an adult in the room, but Facebook just came out with a new video chat and messaging app that’s designed specifically for children, it’s called Messenger Kids . It’s free, and it can be used on any smartphone or tablet. Now kids can share any celebration (big + small!) together with anyone who their parents approve, no matter where they are in the world. Read more details about the new app below! Messenger Kids is great because it gives parents total control of their kids’ contact list. Kids can only connect with people who ...

Trump’s Embrace of Racial Bigotry Has Shifted What Is Acceptable in America

October 31, 2018

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A Trokosi Mirror of the US-Mexican Border: On Bernice L. McFadden’s “Praise Song for the Butterflies”

October 31, 2018

IT IS UNCANNY when a book arrives at a particularly riveting moment, one in which the book’s reflection of current events is dizzying. How would an unsuspecting reader know that Bernice L. McFadden’s latest novel — a tale of modern-day slavery in another hemisphere, depicting the practice of trokosi — would resonate so deeply on our own shores? I read this tale of separation, betrayal, and internecine secrets during a time when children were torn from the bosoms of their families at the US-Mexican border, emphasizing both actions for what they are: barbaric. McFadden’s novel is the story of a nine-year-old child who was dropped off at a temple prison and kept in a cage of tradition and inhumanity — meanwhile, here in the United States, children from South and Central America were sleeping on the floor in enclosures made of mesh wire. As of mid-September 2018, some 12,800 immigrant children were still being held in detention. It is a stunning, gut-punching moment to realize that troko...

Almost Too Sober: On the Appeal of Stoicism

October 31, 2018

SOME OF US want to be rock stars or rocket scientists when we grow up, while others want to be actors or athletes. Marcus Aurelius, though, wanted to grow up to be a Stoic. That, at least, is the impression Marguerite Yourcenar gives us in her novel Memoirs of Hadrian . This brilliant reimagining of the Roman imperial period is cast as a letter written by the dying Hadrian to the teenage Marcus Aurelius he has chosen to succeed him. While Hadrian admires his “dear Mark,” he also chides him. He was, Hadrian recalls, an “almost too sober little boy” who had grown into a young man a tad too zealous in his practice of “the mortifications of the Stoics.” What would Hadrian — or, at least, Yourcenar’s Hadrian — have made of our current craze with Stoicism? While it is too late for many of us to grow up to become Stoics, more than a few of us want to finish up as Stoics. Princeton University Press’s new edition of Epictetus’s Encheiridion and selected Discourses , titled How to Be Free: An ...

The Turk and the Diplomat: An Introduction to Ivo Andrić’s “Omer Pasha Latas”

October 31, 2018

LARB PRESENTS William T. Vollmann’s introduction to Ivo Andrić’s Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan , translated by Celia Hawkesworth and published by NYRB Classics today. ¤ 1. “If we all had the opportunity, courage and strength to transform just a part of our imaginings […] into reality […] it would be immediately clear to the whole world and to ourselves who we are […] and what we are capable of becoming. […] Fortunately, for most of us, that oppor-tunity never arises. […] But if, by some misfortune, it does happen to someone, that someone finds that we are all merciless judges.” This passage from Omer Pasha Latas is a pretty clear summation of the eponymous protagonist, who lives hated and isolated in the prison of his self-made greatness. It also bears, quite sadly, on various pre-and post-Yugoslav nationalisms. 2. “I once asked him, ‘What do you feel like, a Croat or a Serb?’ ‘You know,’ he replied, ‘I couldn’t tell you myself. I’ve always felt Yugoslav.’” The questi...