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…
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Well, friends, I have been listening to Phantom of the Opera and reading Harrow the Ninth, so that’s how I’m doing. Like, in case you were curious. I love these two things so much it hurts me, but especially I love Harrow the Ninth. If you haven’t read Gideon the Ninth yet, can I highly recommend that you hop to it before Harrow comes out this summer? You will not be sorry. You will rejoice in having done so. Be blessed. I miss Grantland all the time, but I’m so glad The Ringer exists. Here’s a terrific piece on how…
Leave a CommentThe last Friday before Christmas is upon me, and there are so many presents yet unwrapped and even one present yet unprocured, which is not the way I like to comport myself. But here we are. Luckily in the midst of all this turmoil and disarray, I still have the Netflix show The Untamed to sustain me, and it is the most searingly romantic thing that perhaps ever has burned itself across my greedy eyeballs. Please hit me up here or on Twitter if you need a show to watch over the holidays. I am happy to give you an…
Leave a CommentJoyous, joyous day! The NPR Book Concierge for 2019 has landed! As usual, my TBR list has exponentiated as a result. It’s Friday and I have other links, but realistically, the one we care about is the Book Concierge. Find books in good health, friends! Here’s what it’s like to be an audiobook narrator. I wouldn’t exactly call Gaudy Night an “overlooked” novel but that doesn’t mean I will turn up my nose at this appreciation of Gaudy Night and its heroine, my favorite character in all of literature, Harriet Vane. So here’s the thing about My Favorite Murder. (Disclosure,…
Leave a CommentI’m just kidding with that post title. Obviously, the most important thing that happened this week is that we got a final Star Wars trailer. It seems to suggest (as other teaser stuff has) that our girl Rey is going to be tempted by the dark side of the Force. All that I desire is for Finn to pull her back to the light with the power of friendship BECAUSE THEIR FRIENDSHIP IS SO POWERFUL. However, there are other things that you might like to read and do that aren’t watching the Star Wars trailer, or reading extensive, important commentary…
Leave a CommentLinear time triumphed over chaos once more: We have attained the weekend! I am sorry to all of you, but especially to the Kurds, for having to experience this fucking week. I know I just said an encouraging thing about linear time, but have we considered just pressing pause on it for a bit? Just to get a break. It wouldn’t have to be for long. How long did Joshua make the sun stand still? Can we have a pause that lasts for that length of time? ….This links round-up has gotten a little conceptual. Please have some links. I…
Leave a CommentOnce again we have made it through another week, and this time the weary week has done us a solid by leading us into October. The best of months! Welcome, October, we have been wishing for you. If you measure this week by hours, it has been the normal length, but if you measure it (and this is the trick) by presidential crimes openly committed, it has been ten thousand eons. I did get to play Untitled Goose Game this week, though. So at least there’s that. Anyway, here are some links for you! Call off the dogs; the best…
Leave a CommentHonestly, it’s kind of weird. Why do I have so many links to things that dudes wrote? This isn’t like me at all. WHO AM I. WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN. (Don’t worry, y’all, there’s still lots of things that women wrote, because I’m still me and women write amazing things.) Anyway, here are a bunch of links, two of which are about copyright and estate drama, which I adore. Enjoy! Jerry Falwell Jr. runs Liberty University like a dictator. I am SO obsessed with weird shit around writers’ estates and who controls the rights to a writer’s work and…
Leave a CommentIn an effort to appear Current, I am putting a more Current link at the top of this links round-up but it will quickly become apparent that a lot of these are old links because I forgot to post my links round-ups in a timely manner, and I am sorry. I have no excuse except that I just forgot about it on Thursday. Here’s a history of all the times New York Times opinion columnists wrote opinion columns about how unkind the internet is to New York Times opinion columnists. THE ARCHIVE WON A HUGO THE ARCHIVE WON A HUGO…
Leave a CommentIt’s Friday! Or, described to align more closely with my experience of this week, Monday Part Five. (That is a joke I cribbed from my brother-in-law, so please enjoy it and praise me as if I had coined it myself.) Litrally nothing has happened this entire week. Only time has passed, at an agonizingly slow rate. What is time? What is truth and goodness? Is there a future? I don’t know, and neither do you! To distract us from the existential dread we all feel, here are some links! Advice on how to dress professionally hits marginalized women so, so…
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