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Mating

Norman Rush

Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tackles the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what men and wo...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Jane described the novel as sublime, beautiful, funny, and an exploration of love, anthropology, science, and justice.

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My first recommendation is Norman Rush's Mating, which is just-- I just read that. I love the first twothirds of it. In my view, that novel is sublime and beautiful and funny and an exploration of lov...

— Episode: Is Decarbonization Dead?

Episode: Is Decarbonization Dead?

Jane described the novel as sublime, beautiful, funny, and an exploration of love, anthropology, science, and justice.

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My first recommendation is Norman Rush's Mating, which is just-- I just read that. I love the first twothirds of it. In my view, that novel is sublime and beautiful and funny and an exploration of love and anthropology and science and justice.

Timcast IRL

Podcast

Timcast IRL

The novel is about a romance but it also makes a political point about the left and their obsession with the insurrectionary moment, which is the joy they experience during a riot or revolution.

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So there was this great novel by Norman Rush called Mating which is a romance novel but he makes this incredible political point which is that the left lives for what he calls the insurrectionary mome...

— Episode: Timcast IRL #1100 Harris CNN Interview A...

Episode: Timcast IRL #1100 Harris CNN Interview ALREADY SLA...

The novel is about a romance but it also makes a political point about the left and their obsession with the insurrectionary moment, which is the joy they experience during a riot or revolution.

"

So there was this great novel by Norman Rush called Mating which is a romance novel but he makes this incredible political point which is that the left lives for what he calls the insurrectionary moment.

Episode: Timcast IRL #1100 Harris CNN Interview ALREADY SLA...

The book was a romance novel, but it made a political point in that it suggested that leftists live for the "insurrectionary moment," which is the moment of rebellion and excitement, but that they can't govern or run a society if they try to do it for everyone.

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So there was this great novel by Norman Rush called Mating which is a romance novel but he makes this incredible political point which is that the left lives for what he calls the insurrectionary moment.

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