Hamilton Cain
@HamiltonCain
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Expat Tennessean in NYC. Bylines: @nytimes, @wsj, @washingtonpost, @BostonGlobe, @latimes, @oprahdaily, @TheAtlantic, @LAReviewofBooks, @StarTribune, et al.
Brooklyn, New York
Joined June 2011
Fiction fans: @Peter_Orner's new novel, "The Gossip Columnist's Daughter," is both chilling and a fun-as-hell read. Come for the Hollywood noir, stay for the talking cat. Out next week from @littlebrown. Here's my rave review for @BostonGlobe:
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Peter Orner's exuberant new novel, "The Gossip Columnist's Daughter," dramatizes a real-life unsolved murder, both a homage to Hollywood noir and a meditation on how and why our deepest connections...
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RT @umichvoter: the margin she's about to put up, beltway media definitely gonna bring her in the 2028 conversation.
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Co-sign.
This may not be the most urgent crisis facing human civilization but it's probably like number 4 or 5.
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Uh, there was this thing called the Reformation . .
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says Christianity is the origin of anti-Semitism. "There were these accusations that the Jews killed Christ."
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RT @lpolgreen: It seems what this boils down to is that candidate/district fit is much, much more valuable than some abstract idea of "mode….
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RT @infinite_jaz: For no reason at all, I’m thinking about @SenatorSlotkin telling @krystalball and @esaagar two weeks ago that she backed….
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RT @admcrlsn: Hey did you know that Chuck Schumer has a <50% favorability among:. Democrats.Independents.Republicans.Men.Women.Liberals.Mod….
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RT @queenie4rmnola: To be clear they’re talking about ethnically cleansing black communities.
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RT @erikmbaker: I'm gonna be for real with you, I have some concerns about the present trajectory of our society.
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RT @covie_93: A woman who is on her fourth marriage after three divorces is petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage to….
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RT @matthewstoller: I’ve never seen Democratic voters hating their leaders before. It’s a very good sign.
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The three-fifths compromise--the cornerstone of the 1787 Constitution--was literally a lie.
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I'm reading Jill Lepore's forthcoming "We the People" and honestly this pathology is as old as the Constitution itself. Our republic has always been about money and the misery of others, from fortunes built on the bodies of slaves to the dispossession of Indigenous lands.
I think when historians look back on late imperial US “culture” they will be struck by the fact that everything was for sale, all speech was commercial speech, and so everybody lied all the time. Eventually nobody could tell what was true anymore, and so the whole place went mad.
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I adored Nicholas Boggs's epic new biography of James Baldwin, out next week from @fsgbooks. Here's my review for @StribGoingOut:
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"Baldwin: A Love Story," by Nicholas Boggs, takes a fresh look at author and activist James Baldwin through the eyes of four men who knew him well.
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RT @HewittSTrib: Inventive new bio of James Baldwin is "magisterial," sez @HamiltonCain in his review for @StribGoingOut ..
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"Baldwin: A Love Story," by Nicholas Boggs, takes a fresh look at author and activist James Baldwin through the eyes of four men who knew him well.
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RT @nkulw: I don’t think there is any policy sea change on Gaza coming, I don’t think there is a new wave of humanitarian consciousness, I….
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I said it at the time: the protests of summer 2020 were a response to months of quarantine.
People also memory holed how absolutely insane summer 2020 was. We were going through an unprecedented societal & economic upheaval, seeing daily reports of thousands of deaths. Makes perfect sense that our reaction to things in that hyper intense moment would be worth revisiting.
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