My first link is from The Boston Review, and I just think it’s a good time to appreciate The Boston Review for all the terrific, interesting, thoughtful writing that it publishes. Great job, editors. Keep up the good work. You are doing brilliantly.
“To celebrate what was good and criticize what was lacking in the American Revolution were two sides of the same civic coin. Both were necessary for political reasons, but not least because both were true.” On the historians’ debate over The 1619 Project.
To nobody’s surprise, the Catholic Church continues to resist transparency on child abuse by priests. Also the owners of the New Orleans Saints are for some reason involved???
As a 28-Year-Old Latino, I’m Shocked My New Novel, Memoirs of a Middle-Aged White Lady, Has Been So Poorly Received.
Heeheehee this is just some Little Women fanfiction about Jo writing fanfiction, as she would.
Comics discuss the jokes that should be retired in 2020. I agree with most of these, but I also love Sara Schaefer and Shalewa Sharpe for being so like, positive and kind in their answers. What nice people.
Black authors are changing what YA publishing looks like. (We hope.)
Would your partner Force Majeure you?
“The baby takes a ton of purse stickers (as in, they are stickers that look like purses) and puts them on the floor, and they look really awesome since we don’t have a rug, but I can’t even compliment her art or really look at it because of dopamine.” Rebecca Harrington tries a dopamine fast.
Historical movies and biopics consistently sideline women, people of color, and queer people in a very ahistorical manner. Fuck the Oscars.
Most people who live to an extremely old age — allegedly — are lying or mistaken. Is Jeanne Calment one of those people? Warning: This article is a journey.
Museums are grappling with the fraught histories of their funders and their acquisitions.
Here’s Roxane Gay on the complicated emotions that Kobe Bryant’s history and death have engendered in her and many people.
And that’s all the links I have for you right now! If you’ve read anything interesting this week, please drop it in the comments so I can read it too. Have a wonderful weekend!