Happy Friday, beloved friends! I bring glad tidings of great joy: Leverage Redemption has released a trailer and told us a release date (July of this year). Between this and Ted Lasso, the summer TV of 2021 is shaping up to really, really be what I deserve out of life. Here‘s the trailer for Leverage. Here‘s the trailer for Ted Lasso. Great. Now we are all on the same page.
Two articles about burnout: one here, one here.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a tremendous writer on Black politics, and this profile of her is terrific. (link)
Nadya Agrawal talks about what the movie Bend It Like Beckham meant to her as a kid, and what it means to her now. PS that movie should have been gay. (link)
“This is how a misogynistic culture is conceptualized, created, cultivated and codified. It doesn’t happen because one dude does a bad thing. It happens when like-minded dudes are allowed to be one another’s gatekeepers, and the gatekeepers of broader culture, when faults are allowed to go unexamined, and so they instead spread: Harvey Weinstein dictated the content of movie theaters for decades; it turns out he was abusing women all along. Roger Ailes, Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer shaped coverage and discussion of sexual misconduct scandals throughout the 1990s and 2000s; they were later accused of sexual misconduct themselves.” (link)
And further to the Philip Roth bio: (link).
I ALSO MISS SMALL TALK, and I’m saying that as an introvert so introverted that other introverts are like “geez, dude, lighten up.” (link)
On opening a brick and mortar bookstore during a pandemic. (link)
What makes time loops so eternally alluring? (link)
Bravo and its array of Real Housewiveses has faced a racial reckoning. (link)
Sophie Haigney considers the practice of citation and what it gives to us in this endlessly googlable world. (link)
The landscape of historical romance remains very white, but some authors are trying to change that. (link)
“It’s like being a kid in a candy store, if candy were ebooks.” On the Libby app. (link)
The hot new thing in campus novels is ADJUNCT CAMPUS NOVELS. They have everything: precarity, absurd dissertation topics, not quite nihilism, vengeful hares. (link)
The COVID crisis in India is a direct result of Modi’s primary focus on dismantling Indian democracy and persecuting non-Hindus. Meanwhile, thousands of people are dying. (link)
We remain in scary times, but I hope that you are able to carve out some space for comfort and joy this and every weekend. I myself am doing a puzzle. And reading. And talking with friends, and eating cake. And I hope those things for all of you too.