Reposted by Laura McLean-FerrisZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Billionaires are consolidating around Cuomo because they know he will preserve the broken status quo. New Yorkers are rallying behind our campaign because they're ready for change. In two weeks, we will shock the political establishment and win a city we can all afford. 342771533
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Such important attentiveness to language in this essay, which includes both “pretty ideas” and a commitment to generous disagreement. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...nytimes.comThe Old Idea That Could Give New Life to Progressive PoliticsDuring the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different? 010
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Speculations on our new AI friends: I’m in 4Columns this week reviewing ‘Luminous’ by Silvia Park, a cyberpunk-noir novel which reenvisions love and relationships in a futuristic unified Korea. 4columns.org/mclean-ferri...4columns.orgLuminous 142
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 17/02/2025artreview.com/mahmoud-muna...artreview.comWhy Israel’s Raid on a Palestinian Bookshop MattersThe real threat posed by detained booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna is their willingness to engage with Jewish-Israelis amid a state narrative that presents all Palestinians as terrorists 151
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Nice to see that they set the dance scene in Wicked at La Caverna 010
Reposted by Laura McLean-FerrisAruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Lorraine O’Grady, 1934-2024. A formidable and brilliant artist. Editing her collected essays and co-curating her first full retrospective when she was 86 yrs old was the honor of a lifetime. We’re only now starting to understand the depths of her work and genius. 37222
Reposted by Laura McLean-FerrisArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 06/12/2024The year in books: Beyond the marketing trends, 2024 offered a refreshing reminder that the life of many texts is cyclical, writes Helen Charman artreview.com/we-deserve-m...artreview.comWe Deserve More Than Novelty from the Publishing IndustryThe year in books: Beyond the marketing trends, 2024 offered a refreshing reminder that the life of many texts is cyclical 072
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Haven't seen such a good show of this scale in a very long time ! Here's a review of Meriem Bennani, 'My Best Family' at Fondazione Prada, Milan www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/mer...moussemagazine.itMeriem Bennani, “For My Best Family” at Fondazione Prada, Milan — Mousse Magazine and PublishingI was not alone in having a surprising and immediate reaction to the first tiny episode of Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s 2 Lizards series when I saw it on 160
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Though the occasions to do so are very rare I do enjoy writing a rave every now and again because I love to write drama 010
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Mary Gaitskill: when thoughts behave like "discordant bits of mental detritus borne along by boiling feelings like lawn furniture in lava" marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-lovely...marygaitskill.substack.comThe Lovely and Loveable World...which quietly persists 010
Reposted by Laura McLean-FerrisOliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Overjoyed with the opportunity to tell the 4000 year history of leprosy, and report the stories of those affected past and present. Out June 2025 with @faberbooks.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/rights/faber...thebookseller.comFaber signs journalist Basciano’s 'captivating' book on the history of leprosyFaber has signed journalist Oliver Basciano’s "captivating" first book, Outcast: A History of Us Through Leprosy. 2143
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I thought this was really interesting and at certain moments parallels some of the tensions in Dean's Harper's essay and its reception: www.newyorker.com/culture/open...newyorker.comWhy Do We Talk This Way?Technology is dramatically changing political speech, rewarding quantity and variety over the neat messages of the past. 031
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024artreview.com/james-bridle...artreview.comJames Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’ 031
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Have been writing about Meriem Bennani’s show at Fondazione Prada in Milan this week, and revisiting ’Two Lizards’ made with Orian Barki. Found this perfect image of summer 2020 in New York: 020
Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 16/11/2024was on Twitter for 17 years & nothing to show for it 050