When Gary moves in with his beautiful new room-mate Beth he can't help but hope that romance or at least a fun fling is on the cards. We would be wise to read this collection with a similar eye toward service, and in so doing, open ourselves up to the rare mercy of no longer having to stand on our own. The range of interviews with leading academics, to filmmakers and artists, is impressive, at once immediate and relevant, but also profoundly philosophical. Brad is currently working on a number of book projects, including The Atrocity Exhibition: Life in an Age of Total Violence (The Los Angeles Review of Books Press, 2019) and Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity (Columbia University Press, 2020).

He is also working on a project that explores the aesthetics of human disappearance, while writing in his spare time a work of fiction.

The purpose of the work is to challenge humanity to create more meaningful solutions when it comes to these kinds of violence--or at least to name violence without inadvertently inciting even more anger.

You also agree to our Terms of Use, and to receive newsletters, account updates and offers sent by BeNaughty. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.By checking this box, I agree to the Terms of Use, which include the use of cookies, and the Billing Policy. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Brad's books have been the recipient of prestigious international awards and translated in many languages, including Spanish, Turkish, Korean and German. He is currently the lead editor for a dedicated section on violence and the arts/critical theory with The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. Notable contemporary thinkers and creators give their individual perspectives in this compelling look at violence. Their philosophical rigor provides the reader with an intellectual arsenal against the violence of the current moment. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.A provocative volume that challenges humanity to correct its runaway course toward an increasingly violent future by learning from its violent past. Soon he finds himself doing more than keeping her company and discovers the rather large secret that Anne's been hiding in her pants all these years. More essentially, though, the conversations underline the need and suggest ways to resist and organize in a visionary way, in the extraordinary times we live in. The woman turns out to be Angel, Beth's mother, and after the initial embarrassment of being caught in the act he finds that Angel rather enjoyed the show he was putting on and she even encourages him to continue. Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard, the interviewers and the 'authors' of the anthology, have done a remarkable job in bringing together perceptive and intelligent contributors from various fields to scout the reaches of violence.

Violence: Humans in Dark Times is an intriguing beginning to a much-needed sustained intellectual and aesthetic response to the horrors of modern times. In Violence, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard have created, alongside their interview subjects, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the concept of violence, in terrains expected and not, in prose taut and unexpectedly gorgeous. These lively, in-depth exchanges among historians, theorists, and artists offer a timely and bracing look at how the increasing expression and acceptance of violence--in all strata of society--has become a defining feature of our times. One day while he's enjoying some 'private time' in his room however he is interrupted by what appears to be an older and even sexier version of Beth.Many of us live today with a pervasive sense of unease, worried that our own safety is at risk, or that of our loved ones, or that of people whose bad circumstances appear to us through networked media. Angel isn't satisfied with just watching however and Gary is more than happy to let her join in on the fun.