Anyway, here are the Depp/Heard links: Gita Jackson on the trial and Moira Donegan on the trial and that’s all the links and the other links are about other topics.

I would like to report that I love nominative determinism. Thank you for your time.

The new film Men, whose trailer I watched twice without realizing all the men are played by the same actor, doesn’t go far enough.

Ten years on, does Gone Girl hold up?

Any time a structure operates without accountability to protect itself rather than the people who comprise it, there will be sexual abuse. A massive new report details how the Southern Baptist Convention silenced survivors and protected perpetrators.

The state of today’s social media encourages plagiarism. Here’s how.

Here’s what’s going on with Seven Seas and its employees’ attempt to unionize.

I’m trying to get more into reading mysteries, so I really appreciated this rec list of historical mysteries that grapple with the violence of empire.

I have seen Double Indemnity despite never seeing movies, and therefore this introduction to it for the Criterion Collection pleased me mightily.

BRING BACK THE AIM AWAY MESSAGE.

Here’s how teens (and everyone!) can identify and avoid conspiracy theories online.

Valerie Complex speaks out about racism at the Cannes film festival.

How to end a story.

And that’s how to end a links round-up!

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Patricia Highsmith’s diaries are going to be published in 2021. I still haven’t read The Price of Salt, and I am mad at myself about it. Maybe that will be one of my small goals for 2020.

The kids are frankly fucking inspiring.

I was super intrigued by this post about the sexist ways the Austens and Brontes are often portrayed in biographies and fiction.

“Most of us writing now were not educated by that expanded canon.” Alexander Chee on writing stories about people who are different than you.

Dahlia Lithwick hasn’t been back to the Supreme Court since Kavanaugh was confirmed. From the reporter who brought us the Chaos Muppet / Order Muppet theory as part of her Supreme Court reporting, this is devastating. It’s devastating anyway. Fuck the patriarchy.

Listen. Listen. Listen. I have no opinion about whether Jeffrey Epstein was murdered or died by suicide because I am not qualified to assess the evidence. But I do want to be able to depend on people who are qualified to assess the evidence, which, um.

Dialogue from the husbands in every haunted house movie.

Carmen Maria Machado wrote her memoir of surviving a queer abusive relationship because she could not find such books to support her when she was in the midst of the experience. Here’s also a review of her book that I thought was really good.

New English Canaan was a 1637 book that harshly critiqued the Puritan colonizers in America. Sounds fascinating, no?

The demise of Deadspin has been miserable to witness. Anna Merlan reports: Blogging is hard.

“Romance novels are social novels.” Adriana Herrera (an awesome writer!) on the possibilities that diverse romance novels offer.

Attention please, these are all the holiday movies. Brace for incoming.

Malka Older talks utopia, dystopia, and the necessity of imagining better futures for ourselves.

Feminist bookstores are having a renaissance in the South.

That’s all for today! Have a wonderful weekend, please topple the patriarchy responsibly, and I’ll see you back here on Monday, when we will all recommence weeping and tearing our hair over the future (slash, doom?) of the world.

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