Marc E. Vargo Books
@marc-vargo-books.bsky.social
Writer, nonfiction. New Orleans (Northshore).
Website: www.MarcVargo.com
Website: www.MarcVargo.com
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"Two million documents were dropped recently that point directly to a honey trap operation by Epstein on behalf of Russians and his possible involvement with Mossad."
Multiple European governments are launching investigations.
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"Two million documents were dropped recently that point directly to a honey trap operation by Epstein on behalf of Russians and his possible involvement with Mossad."
Multiple European governments are launching investigations.
www.facebook.com/share/r/14U1...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
He nailed it. 🔨
"Two million documents were dropped recently that point directly to a honey trap operation by Epstein on behalf of Russians and his possible involvement with Mossad."
Multiple European governments are launching investigations.
www.facebook.com/share/r/14U1...
"Two million documents were dropped recently that point directly to a honey trap operation by Epstein on behalf of Russians and his possible involvement with Mossad."
Multiple European governments are launching investigations.
www.facebook.com/share/r/14U1...
"Jeffrey Epstein 'was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, and trained as a spy under him,'according to a 2020 FBI document. . . . The revelation adds further weight to long-circulating allegations that Epstein . . . was compiling Kompromat on behalf of Mossad."
FBI document: Epstein trained as spy under Ehud Barak and worked for Mossad
Jeffrey Epstein “was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, and trained as a spy under him,” according to a 2020 FBI document based on direct reporting from a confidential human …
www.middleeastmonitor.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
"Jeffrey Epstein 'was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, and trained as a spy under him,'according to a 2020 FBI document. . . . The revelation adds further weight to long-circulating allegations that Epstein . . . was compiling Kompromat on behalf of Mossad."
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I finished reading "The Stalker" last night, and it was one of the strangest, most disturbing, and most fascinating novels I've ever read.
It's told from the point of view of a really stupid sociopath, like a clueless Patrick Bateman, taking on Manhattan in the 1980s and 90s.
It's told from the point of view of a really stupid sociopath, like a clueless Patrick Bateman, taking on Manhattan in the 1980s and 90s.
A Textbook Trash Human | Paula Bomer’s The Stalker
By Mila Jaroniec
southwestreview.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I finished reading "The Stalker" last night, and it was one of the strangest, most disturbing, and most fascinating novels I've ever read.
It's told from the point of view of a really stupid sociopath, like a clueless Patrick Bateman, taking on Manhattan in the 1980s and 90s.
It's told from the point of view of a really stupid sociopath, like a clueless Patrick Bateman, taking on Manhattan in the 1980s and 90s.
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Was Jane Austen gay? The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 and the City of London Sinfonia join forces to pose the question nobody thought to ask during Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary year, on Sunday at the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden.
More details and tickets: actorschurch.org/whatson/was-...
More details and tickets: actorschurch.org/whatson/was-...
January 30, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Was Jane Austen gay? The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 and the City of London Sinfonia join forces to pose the question nobody thought to ask during Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary year, on Sunday at the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden.
More details and tickets: actorschurch.org/whatson/was-...
More details and tickets: actorschurch.org/whatson/was-...
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I've actually been meaning to reread Infinite Jest since my brother passed from a drug overdose, because it taught me so much about addiction and (even more so) recovery. I genuinely enjoyed reading it the first time, and had no idea what practically utility it would hold for me personally.
“Infinite Jest” is a masterpiece and a pleasure to read, Hermione Hoby writes. “Perhaps the greatest disjunction between the book’s reputation and its contents lies in the notion that it’s a pretentious slog no one could honestly enjoy.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xQHtnb
January 30, 2026 at 4:05 AM
I've actually been meaning to reread Infinite Jest since my brother passed from a drug overdose, because it taught me so much about addiction and (even more so) recovery. I genuinely enjoyed reading it the first time, and had no idea what practically utility it would hold for me personally.
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This is what the Republican party has become. The GOP: instead of Grand Old Party. It's Guardians Of Pedophiles (Trump), Or Goons on Patrol (ICE- Homan, Noem, Bovino).
January 30, 2026 at 3:44 AM
This is what the Republican party has become. The GOP: instead of Grand Old Party. It's Guardians Of Pedophiles (Trump), Or Goons on Patrol (ICE- Homan, Noem, Bovino).
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“A fellow woman student at Hopkins remembered that Gertrude Stein’s ‘idea of argument’ was (figuratively) ‘to throw her shoes at you, pitch you down a flight of stairs...and leave you wordless and for dead.’” —Hermione Lee
Epic Ambitions | Hermione Lee
A new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.
www.nybooks.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:46 PM
“A fellow woman student at Hopkins remembered that Gertrude Stein’s ‘idea of argument’ was (figuratively) ‘to throw her shoes at you, pitch you down a flight of stairs...and leave you wordless and for dead.’” —Hermione Lee
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Watercolour drawing (quite large) of the garden a couple of summers ago. A very hot year and we had a good crop of plum tomatoes.
#watercolour #penandink #pleinair
#watercolour #penandink #pleinair
January 28, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Watercolour drawing (quite large) of the garden a couple of summers ago. A very hot year and we had a good crop of plum tomatoes.
#watercolour #penandink #pleinair
#watercolour #penandink #pleinair
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Another state-sponsored murder.
Another execution of an American citizen.
Carried out by paramilitary goons tasked with terrorizing the people.
Sent by a regime that is at war with a vast section of its own population.
Another execution of an American citizen.
Carried out by paramilitary goons tasked with terrorizing the people.
Sent by a regime that is at war with a vast section of its own population.
Holy crap.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
January 24, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Another state-sponsored murder.
Another execution of an American citizen.
Carried out by paramilitary goons tasked with terrorizing the people.
Sent by a regime that is at war with a vast section of its own population.
Another execution of an American citizen.
Carried out by paramilitary goons tasked with terrorizing the people.
Sent by a regime that is at war with a vast section of its own population.
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We believe that a revolutionary pedagogy is vital to building a liberatory future.
Join the Verso Book Club to take part in our monthly online reading groups, a place to dig into the critical work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
Join the Verso Book Club to take part in our monthly online reading groups, a place to dig into the critical work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide | The Verso Book Club Reading Group
Eman Basher and Ahmed Masoud will join the Verso Book Club Reading Group to discuss Palestinian poetry, education, and resistance.
www.versobooks.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:31 PM
We believe that a revolutionary pedagogy is vital to building a liberatory future.
Join the Verso Book Club to take part in our monthly online reading groups, a place to dig into the critical work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
Join the Verso Book Club to take part in our monthly online reading groups, a place to dig into the critical work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
Don't go back and change past literary works to conform to current ideologies.
Author Val McDermid: “We need to have those earlier historic texts to understand how far we’ve come and how different it is now.”
She's 100% correct.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Author Val McDermid: “We need to have those earlier historic texts to understand how far we’ve come and how different it is now.”
She's 100% correct.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Val McDermid was assigned ‘sensitivity reader’ to cut offensive language from old books
Author discusses changes made to Lindsay Gordon novels from 80s and 90s to prepare for their rerelease
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Don't go back and change past literary works to conform to current ideologies.
Author Val McDermid: “We need to have those earlier historic texts to understand how far we’ve come and how different it is now.”
She's 100% correct.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Author Val McDermid: “We need to have those earlier historic texts to understand how far we’ve come and how different it is now.”
She's 100% correct.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Congratulations to BR contributor @quinnslobodian.com for making the NBCC shortlist for criticism.
Read an excerpt from HAYEK’S BASTARDS here:
Read an excerpt from HAYEK’S BASTARDS here:
January 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Congratulations to BR contributor @quinnslobodian.com for making the NBCC shortlist for criticism.
Read an excerpt from HAYEK’S BASTARDS here:
Read an excerpt from HAYEK’S BASTARDS here:
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Truly truly truly cannot recommend this, and the entire Dryco series enough. Random Acts, in particular, is one of the most profoundly unnerving things I’ve ever ready (complementary)
See also, @jwomack.bsky.social's *Random Acts (1995), which really bit into the copper wire of the immanent American future: lareviewofbooks.org/article/ther...
“There’s Too Much Reality”: On Jack Womack’s “Random Acts of Senseless Violence” | Los Angeles Review of Books
With everyone thinking about "The Handmaid's Tale" after the election, Ron Hogan believes "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" is also appropriate reading.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 18, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Truly truly truly cannot recommend this, and the entire Dryco series enough. Random Acts, in particular, is one of the most profoundly unnerving things I’ve ever ready (complementary)
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‘It is very hard to pray if your relationship to words themselves is as fastidious, suspicious, self-conscious and filled with doubt as Eliot’s was. The language of prayer does not entertain constant word-by-word revision.’
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941
Who was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T.S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around?...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 5:10 PM
‘It is very hard to pray if your relationship to words themselves is as fastidious, suspicious, self-conscious and filled with doubt as Eliot’s was. The language of prayer does not entertain constant word-by-word revision.’
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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If you haven't seen it yet, please, please do. It'll hit streaming early next month, and screenings will keep happening for at least several more months.
Almost a year since @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social premiered at Sundance. I still haven’t fully wrapped my head around being part of a documentary that’s meant so much to our profession and has taken me around the world. What a whirlwind year. Grateful and blessed.
January 18, 2026 at 4:51 PM
If you haven't seen it yet, please, please do. It'll hit streaming early next month, and screenings will keep happening for at least several more months.
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Tariq Ali acclaimed series of five novels form an epic panorama that begins in 15th century Moorish Spain, and closes in the 21st century cities of Lahore, London, Paris and Beijing.
Tariq Ali: A Leading Figure of the International Left
Tariq Ali has been a leading figure of the international left since the 60s. From the student movement in Pakistan to the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, from Trotsky to Malcolm X, from Lenin to Lennon,…
www.versobooks.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Tariq Ali acclaimed series of five novels form an epic panorama that begins in 15th century Moorish Spain, and closes in the 21st century cities of Lahore, London, Paris and Beijing.
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This book had slipped my mind. If you haven’t read it, this would indeed be the time to. If you have, likewise!
My choice for the 30-day books-by-women challenge:
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen #Books
It is not fiction, but worth a read with everything that is happening right now.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen #Books
It is not fiction, but worth a read with everything that is happening right now.
January 17, 2026 at 3:42 AM
This book had slipped my mind. If you haven’t read it, this would indeed be the time to. If you have, likewise!
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Caring about when to use "who" versus when to use "whom," in this climate? It matters, Mary Norris, a former copy editor at The New Yorker, writes. Learn the correct way to use "who" and “whom": newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vq5WzW
January 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Caring about when to use "who" versus when to use "whom," in this climate? It matters, Mary Norris, a former copy editor at The New Yorker, writes. Learn the correct way to use "who" and “whom": newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vq5WzW
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More than 50% of US college students are enrolled in a state with at least one law or policy censoring higher education. Since PEN America began tracking this legislation in 2021, educational censorship has spread nationwide. Read our America’s Censored Campuses report at: pen.org/report/ameri...
January 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM
More than 50% of US college students are enrolled in a state with at least one law or policy censoring higher education. Since PEN America began tracking this legislation in 2021, educational censorship has spread nationwide. Read our America’s Censored Campuses report at: pen.org/report/ameri...
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I had a great (and long!) conversation with @janskudlarek.bsky.social:
About where America stands one year into Trumpist rule, the violent assault on Minneapolis - and why we must remember that the gulf between Trump’s authoritarian desires and the reality of American life remains vast.
About where America stands one year into Trumpist rule, the violent assault on Minneapolis - and why we must remember that the gulf between Trump’s authoritarian desires and the reality of American life remains vast.
(27) Ein Jahr Trump: Ein Jahr Gewalt, Lügen & Widerstand - mit Thomas Zimmer
Podcast Episode · Nicht noch ein Politik-Podcast · 01/16/2026 · 1h 45m
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January 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I had a great (and long!) conversation with @janskudlarek.bsky.social:
About where America stands one year into Trumpist rule, the violent assault on Minneapolis - and why we must remember that the gulf between Trump’s authoritarian desires and the reality of American life remains vast.
About where America stands one year into Trumpist rule, the violent assault on Minneapolis - and why we must remember that the gulf between Trump’s authoritarian desires and the reality of American life remains vast.
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The best performers in the world were often unremarkable as children. A large review finds that early success predicts little about adult excellence, while broad experience, delayed specialization, and steady improvement matter far more.
READ MORE: www.profolus.com/topics/prodi...
READ MORE: www.profolus.com/topics/prodi...
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
The best performers in the world were often unremarkable as children. A large review finds that early success predicts little about adult excellence, while broad experience, delayed specialization, and steady improvement matter far more.
READ MORE: www.profolus.com/topics/prodi...
READ MORE: www.profolus.com/topics/prodi...
Finally -- finally -- the media is beginning to realize that Stephen Miller is the leading force behind this shit.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Ugly Beast of American Authoritarianism
Might is right is the philosophy behind the Trump administration’s decision to kidnap Nicolás Maduro.
www.thenation.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Finally -- finally -- the media is beginning to realize that Stephen Miller is the leading force behind this shit.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...