Banned: The song deemed ‘too dangerous’ for the BBC by Stephen Dowling In a marvelous act of research and wry summary, Stephen Dowling provides the details on around a dozen different songs that have received official bans from the BBC … Continue reading Outside Reading — When She Squeezed Me Tight She Nearly Broke My Spine edition
An Oral History of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Perfect Men in Black ‘Sugar Water’ Scene by Rachel Handler Look, it’s probably a stretch to call this article an oral history, since it’s really comprised of nothing more than two interviews — with … Continue reading Outside Reading — I Want a Little Sugar in My Cup edition
The Unexpected Profundity of Curious George by Rivka Galchen I’m always going to susceptible to a smart story involving Curious George, and this piece is smarter than most. For The New Yorker, Rivka Galchen explores how well the adventures about … Continue reading Outside Reading — Ever So Curious edition
The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’ by Anne Harrington I’m bound to be enthralled by any smart story that digs into the earliest days of Sesame Street, the PBS program of my youth that was … Continue reading Outside Reading — Sweepin’ the Clouds Away edition
“‘But thank God for Walter Winchell. Without him we’d be lost. He’s the last person on the radio to speak out against these dirty dogs. It’s disgusting. It’s worse than disgusting. Slowly but surely, there’s nobody in America willing to … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
When considering which books to add to my household’s library, I am blessed with neither unlimited resources nor an abundance of time with which to read. There are already stacks upon stacks of bound wonders strewn about the domicile, waiting … Continue reading My Writers — Elif Batuman
“In those days, I knew nothing of what I’ve come to know of the upper classes, who seemed to my mind then either fat people in dusty wigs, half recumbent or mounted upon some unfortunate horse, in paintings with gilded … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
“Time of a summer evening when the world is being downsampled toward grayscale. The air cooling, a change that seems to be caused less by the setting of the sun than by the fading of color; and the legions of … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
“On that snowy day when he asked to borrow all that money to take care of his sick sister in Georgia, Lily’s disgust fought with relief and lost. She picked up the dog tags he’d left on the bathroom sink … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
When the moment called for an evaluation comparing and contrasting the respective testimonies of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, The New York Times couldn’t have tapped a better … Continue reading My Writers — Rebecca Traister
Coffee for Two 