Chaucer called it “spiritual manslaughter”; Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals-is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodríguez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice-a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles,…
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Who is Johnny Depp’s new girlfriend? Everything you need to know about Joelle Rich – Fox News
Johnny Depp is dating Joelle Rich, the married lawyer who represented him in his defamation trial against a British tabloid, Fox News Digital Although she was not part of the legal team that represented Depp in his Virginia…