Here’s a good place to start: Arts & Letters Daily. Each day, two or three new articles appear on the top of each column. If you read nothing else, ever, you will be a well up-to-speed news- and culturewise only reading this once a day.
Madeleine L’Engle is dead.
Madeleine L’Engle is dead.
A Wrinkle in Time (and its sequels, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet) featured the first fictional protagonist I found who I wholly identified with: the bespectacled, brave, brilliant, mousy-haired Meg Murry. Meg made smart cool.
Normalization of Worldwide Standard of Beauty
Normalization of Worldwide Standard of Beauty
Discuss. Luis Acosta/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images (in today’s New York Times)
My Dejected Man of Genius
My Dejected Man of Genius
I love Jarvis Cocker. Not in an “I want to shag him wildly and repeatedly” way. I love him in an “I want to give him a big long hug, make him eat something substantial, and clean his glasses if they’re smeary and also to push them up if they slide down his nose” way.
Let’s giggle at imperialism.
Let’s giggle at imperialism.
I watched a dark and whimsical film over the weekend, of the sort that most reviewers would call a “romp.” I’m not going to call it that, despite the self-aware (and, at times, even self-righteous) rollicking. One of the things I find incredibly intriguing is the extent to which culture impacts popular culture, and how ignorantly unaware most people are of this.
