Carlos Lozada
book critic. Immigrant/Peru. alum. Author of WHAT WERE WE THINKING: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era (Oct 2020).
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Washington Post Critic Says 'Trump Has Unwittingly Enabled' Discussions Of Race
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Carlos Lozada tells NPR: "It's ironic that a president with such a negative force for race relations" and women's rights has presided over a period where both groups feel more empowered to speak out.
Carolyn Ryan Elevated to Deputy Managing Editor | The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company 21h 1 tweets
Reading guide: 15 books to help you make sense of Trump, the U.S. election and the times we’re in
thestar.com 22h 1 tweets
Hundreds of American politics titles are crowding the shelves - including an entire book about Trump books
Carlos Lozada Thanks to the for including WHAT WERE WE THINKING among the "15 Books to Help You Make Sense of Trump, the U.S. Election, and the Times We're In" 22h
The Only Middle Finger Available | National Review
National Review 47h 12 tweets
If Trump wins, it will be as a gigantic rude gesture to the cultural Left.
2021 Winners
Reference & User Services Association (RUSA) 41h 1 tweets
A total of 46 books (26 fiction, 20 nonfiction) has been selected for the longlist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be chosen...
About Our Excerpt from President Obama’s Forthcoming Memoir
The New Yorker 47h 1 tweets
This week, The New Yorker is publishing a long piece by Barack Obama about the ferocious battle over his most transformative piece of legislation.
Carlos Lozada “The Presidential memoir is ordinarily a literary meal somewhat less delicious than library paste. Former inhabitants of the Oval Office generally leave that quiet, intimidating room prematurely aged, worn out, and defensive...in no mood for self-doubt.” 47h
Barack Obama Looks Back on His Toughest Fight
The New Yorker 48h 12 tweets
An excerpt from the President’s new memoir, “A Promised Land,” on what it took to make Obamacare a reality.
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Carlos Lozada And that’s the ⁦⁩ with the excerpt of Barack Obama’s memoir 47h
The Essential Agatha Christie
Nytimes.com 3d 5 tweets
Whether you want to be scared, shocked or stumped, we will help you pick your poison. Strychnine-laced cocoa, anyone?
Carlos Lozada I forgive ⁦⁩ for bringing up Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence characters yet somehow omitting any mention of their glorious adventure in THE SECRET ADVERSARY. Please don’t let it happen again... 3d
‎Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter: TV critic James Poniewozik on Trump's season finale and the media's 'burnout' from four years of reality show governance on Apple Podcasts
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‎Show Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter, Ep TV critic James Poniewozik on Trump's season finale and the media's 'burnout' from four years of reality show governance - Oct 23, 2020
Carlos Lozada Terrific conversation between two journalists who have obsessively covered and considered Trump’s relationship with television: ⁦⁩ and ⁦⁦⁩ 3d
The Rebel, the Policeman and a Chase Through Britain and Beyond
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Ian McGuire’s historical novel “The Abstainer” pits an Irish separatist against a police constable in 19th-century England.
Carlos Lozada So Ian McGuire’s new novel THE ABSTAINER sounds utterly glorious. 3d
Two first-year students dead, sophomore hospitalized after car crash // The Observer
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This report was updated at 6:23 p.m. Two Notre Dame first-year students were killed and one sophomore was hospitalized after being hit by a car early Saturday morning on Ironwood Road, vice president of student affairs Erin Hoffmann Harding said in...
Carlos Lozada Prayers for the friends and families of two undergraduates who were killed, and a third seriously injured, when struck by a car early this morning in South Bend. The two students who died were first-year students from Ecuador and Bolivia. 3d
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
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News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
The Lessons of Reading Every Book About Trump
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In “What Were We Thinking,” Carlos Lozada revisits all the Trump books that he’s read since 2015: about a hundred and fifty titles, each purporting to illuminate the man and his times.
Carlos Lozada “Lozada’s strengths as a critic are obvious. He is charming, funny, and light on his feet, and his descriptions are exceptionally clear and pithy.... This aphoristic style cuts to the quick of complex ideas.” reviews my book in the 4d
The Loss of Shared Grief
Lili Loofbourow - The New York Review of Books 4d 1 tweets
Chaos has a cognitive cost. Many of us understand this at some level, having strained to function normally for months now in a jerry-rigged approximation
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Carlos Lozada “Many respond ‘and you’re surprised?!’ whenever news of some fresh Trumpian horror drops; it’s a reflex that suggests we are medicating hopelessness with a know-it-all jadedness and mistaking cynicism for control.” ⁦⁩ captures so much 4d
Susan Collins Hasn’t Changed Much, but Maine Has
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Democrats are angry with her. Republicans see her as disloyal to the president. Her old-fashioned politics? “I don’t know if people respond as well to that anymore,” said her G.O.P. predecessor in the Senate.
Carlos Lozada A little Politico vibe on a good tonight, when referred to as “our friend J-Mart” on air, highlighting this story re Susan Collins 4d
Letters to the Editor
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Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Carlos Lozada “Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!” 5d
Carlos Lozada People have some thoughts about Joe Klein’s review of WHAT WERE WE THINKING in ⁦⁩: 3d
Manual breve para nuestro tiempo
EL PAÍS 5d 1 tweets
El crítico Carlos Lozada ha leído y digerido 150 libros publicados durante y sobre la presidencia de Trump. El resultado es un lúcido análisis sobre el autoritarismo y las amenazas a la democracia
Carlos Lozada "Su libro no solo es una guía editorial de la era de Trump, sino un análisis lúcido sobre el tiempo que vivimos. Su utilidad, por tanto, desborda los límites de la democracia estadounidense." Antonio Caño reviews WHAT WERE WE THINKING in 5d
Reading All Those Trump Books by Trumpcast
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El libro sobre Trump que no sabías que necesitabas (y querías) leer
Los Angeles Times en Español 6d 1 tweets
El meta libro de Trump que no sabías que necesitabas (y querías) leer
Carlos Lozada Mi entrevista (traducida al español) con sobre mi nuevo libro WHAT WERE WE THINKING 6d
Reopen the American Mind
Nytimes.com 6d 12 tweets
In the midst of an existential crisis for higher education, is it even reasonable to expect the humanities to survive?
Carlos Lozada “The health of the humanities should be measured... by whether our society provides ample opportunities for its citizens to ask the fundamental questions about the good life and the just society.” ⁩ & ⁦⁩ think about thinking 6d