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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/nobel-notes-dylan-literature/"></div>Bob Dylan, who won the Nobel Prize on Thursday, made <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4cihgp">his last great recording</a> on my mother’s birthday in 1975. Also, Joni Mitchell is better. He’s a world-historical artist anyway. You might disagree; every Nobel Prize winner is broadly disliked, I hope. Taste is, as always, the least interesting aspect of the contentious debates over who is deserving of this annual travesty. More interesting is the struggle — the campaigning, the outrage, the political demands — over this doling out of cultural recognition by gross global prestige machines. But this year the heat seems to reside in the definition of literature, itself a site of ceaseless cultural combat. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/nobel-notes-dylan-literature/#more-2459" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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Nobel Notes: Dylan as Literature

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/free-speech-year/"></div>While few would dispute that there has been renaissance of open white nationalism since Donald Trump’s election, it has proved difficult for many to narrate the white nationalist movement as a movement. Repeatedly over the last year, people — people in positions of significant power — have treated each rally, gathering, or other event as if it had arisen from nowhere, or from some subterranean roil, singular, independent of previous events. The treatment of each event as discrete, rather than as part of a sustained political project, is a political problem itself, one that has already cost and continues to risk more lives. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/free-speech-year/#more-5219" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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Free Speech Year

<h4>Joshua Clover is author of six books and has been translated into a dozen languages. His two latest are&nbsp;Red Epic&nbsp;(Commune Editions) and&nbsp;Riot. Strike. Riot.: The New Era of Uprisings&nbsp;(Verso). A columnist at&nbsp;The Nation, he is a cofounder of <a href="http://communeeditions.com/">Commune Editions</a>. He is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Davis.</h4>

Joshua Clover

Heliopolis and Helipad

A History of the Barricade

Back to the Barricades

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Michael W. Clune is the critically acclaimed author of the memoirs Gamelife and White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin. His academic books include Writing Against Time and American Literature and the Free Market. Clune’s work has appeared in venues ranging from Harper’s, Salon, and Granta, to Behavioral and Brain Sciences, PMLA, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is currently Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, and lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.&nbsp;

Michael W. Clune

<h4>Jasper Bernes is the author of We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015), a previous collection of poems Starsdown (2007), and is currently completing a book of literary history, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization, about the role of poetry in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Excerpts from We Are Nothing and So Can You have appeared in Lana Turner, The American Reader, the Capilano Review, Hi Zero, Prelude, and elsewhere. His writing on contemporary politics and political economy can be found in venues such as The New Inquiry, LARB, Endnotes, and Viewpoint. He lives in Berkeley with his family and teaches in the English Department at Stanford University.</h4>

Jasper Bernes

Response to "What Was Neoliberalism?": A Debate Between Joshua Clover / Jasper Bernes and Michael W. Clune

The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings

History and the Sphinx: Of Riots and Uprisings

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Annie McClanahan

Percentages, Politics, and the Police

Autumn of the Empire

Joshua Clover is author of six books and has been translated into a dozen languages. His two latest are&nbsp;Red Epic&nbsp;(Commune Editions) and&nbsp;Riot. Strike. Riot.: The New Era of Uprisings&nbsp;(Verso). A columnist at&nbsp;The Nation, he is a cofounder of <a href="http://communeeditions.com/">Commune Editions</a>. He is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Davis.