Sunday paper #1
Curating some film, literature, and politics coverage
Welcome to the first edition of a new series I am trying out. Inspired by childhood mornings reading the newspaper with my family, I’m offering a quick round-up of articles that I have enjoyed over the past couple of weeks that might help you start your day or inspire some thinking. I hope that it brings attention to the great work that writers and journalists are doing for outlets that matter. This is also in lieu of my regular bi-weekly Thursday dispatches, which will be devoted to a book club throughout August. Enjoy!
Film/TV
-Moeko Fujii, “In Janet Planet, a girl’s gaze grows up” in The Baffler
-Michael Szalay, “When Not Every Second Counts” (The Bear Season 3) in Los Angeles Review of Books
Literature
-Georgina Elliott, “Why don’t straight men read novels?” in Dazed
-Valerie Stivers, “Cooking Peppermint Chiffon Pie with Flannery O’Connor” in The Paris Review
-Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, “Minor Detail” in 4Columns’ retrospective series “Regarding Palestine”
-Christine Smallwood on the novels of Constance Debré in Bookforum
Politics
-Brishti Basu, Savanna Craig & Athina Khalid, “Universities, police spread ‘jaw-dropping’ misinformation about encampments” in The Breach
-Geoff Dyer, “The Shot Seen Around the World” (an art historical reading of *that* photo of Trump post-shooting) in The New Statesman
-Zach Vasquez, “How Veep became the most influential political satire of this era” in The Guardian
-Natasha Lennard, “Supporting Palestine Helped the Left Win in France and Britain. Will Democrats Learn From It?” and Samhita Mukhopadhyay, “Kamala Harris and the Dangers of the “Glass Cliff”” in The Intercept