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)…
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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…
Leave a CommentThis concept of “the male glance” is p. devastating, and the more I think about it, the more I feel it’s going to change the way I conceptualize art and art criticism. Lili Loofbourow on the underrating of art by women, which by the WAY, the fact that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend isn’t winning every prize every year is proof positive that the “we” Loofbourow identifies is unable to recognize the intentionality of female performance AGH that show is so fucking good. This is the story of a woman whose childhood was filled with disruptions and changes that she didn’t understand —…
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