Ordinarily I’m all in favor of Leap Year, because it’s cool to just have an extra day. But honestly, do we want an extra day anymore? Don’t we have enough days? Don’t the days keep coming at us like rats to a granary, like field mice when there’s harvest home? Let’s just get through this Leap Year, and before you know it, we will be past it and the year will resume having the normal number of days. And we will MAKE IT THROUGH. Here are some links to help us reach that time.
There is a new little Book David in the fight against the Book Goliath that is Amazon. Yay!
What can 594 translations of Jane Eyre tell us about the (greatest) novel (in the whole world)?
Here’s what’s happening with the Miss America pageant, much diminished from its former glory.
“There’s one other thing a fictional treatment like The Morning Show can do that first-person accounts and journalism can’t: provide a shared text on a potentially borderline situation that gives every member of the public the exact same information.” This is a truly fascinating and thoughtful piece on fiction inspired by #MeToo.
Jane Austen’s fame is not waning in the slightest, but new readings and adaptations of her work must grapple with her books’ whiteness (and possibly imagine new versions of her story).
Redemption narratives in Star Wars lack all accountability, and that’s a failure of storytelling and also go to hell, The Rise of Skywalker.
“How very Capitol of us.” Bethany Morrow on the betrayed promise of Catching Fire.
Women of color experience extraordinary discrimination in the world of academia, while being expected to take on a disproportionate amount of service work.
Why can we never escape the allure of monarchy in fiction? Monarchy is NOT GOOD.
“Creativity has no place on these maps.” Some Swiss mapmakers are outsmarting their colleagues to include hidden pictures on their rigorously fact-checked maps.
Imagine being a mapmaker who successfully hides a marmoset! Imagine achieving that level of triumph and joy! Take that spirit of joy and kindness with you into the weekend, and best of luck to you all.