A weird thing has befallen me, and I need help understanding how to feel. The Millions finally released their second half of 2020 book preview, and I have read it but yet somehow I have added… very few books to my own TBR list? Is it possible that 2020 has finally broken me? Do I no longer possess the capacity to feel joy? Is that what…
Nevertheless: The Millions Book Preview, July – December 2020 Edition. (link)
Hope Wabuke on the KKK joke. (link)
Isabel Wilkerson considers the persistent caste system and the old, broken-down house that is America. (link)
The Netflix Babysitters’ Club is the cutest sweetest show of all time and you should watch it immediately, and also you should read Constance Grady on why the books were such an enduring pleasure that you eventually got very sick of. (link)
“A carefully veiled invitation to use dehumanizing rhetoric under the bastion of ‘the free exchange of ideas.'” Gabrielle Bellot is so great in this response to the Harper’s letter. (link)
What’s brought us to the current situation of harassment and toxicity in the comics world? (link)
“What it signals is orthogonal to what it says.” Lili Loofbourow decries the refusal of those who condemn “cancel culture” to admit the realities that shape online interactions. (link)
“What is the value of a debate that considers some human lives mainly as rhetorical quandaries?” Hannah Giorgis is, as ever, brilliant. (link)
What does power look like in the age of social media? Or, how to have healthy parasocial relationships. (link)
If you are wondering why everyone has been making cake jokes this week, Jaya Saxena is here to help. (link)
It is never appropriate to be attracted to a David Tennant character, and yet. (link)
The situation with John Ortberg and Menlo Church has been … I want to say shocking, but the truth is it’s been tiresomely predictable. (link)
Two STEM scholars put together 10 simple rules for building an antiracist lab. (link)
Seriously, though: Am I even a human person if I am not thrilled and elated with the Millions book preview?
Anyway,
Jenny