Outside Reading — Taylor-Made edition
Featuring articles by Brian Hiatt and Charles M. Blow Continue reading Outside Reading — Taylor-Made edition
Category: Politics
Outside Reading — Is It Fast Enough So We Can Fly Away? edition
This week: Sarah Kendizor on the enduring truth of Tracy Chapman’s most famous song, and The New York Times reports on librarians under attack Continue reading Outside Reading — Is It Fast Enough So We Can Fly Away? edition
Outside Reading — Academy Fight Song edition
Articles from Stephen L. Carter, Alissa Wilkinson, and Jeremy Herbert Continue reading Outside Reading — Academy Fight Song edition
Outside Reading — The Less I Seek My Source for Some Definitive edition
The Oscars Are Confused About “Barbie” by Michael Schulman A couple weeks back, one of the hosts of the addictive podcast Little Gold Men ruefully predicted that all hell would break loose online if Greta Gerwig wasn’t among the nominees … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Less I Seek My Source for Some Definitive edition
Outside Reading — Spin with Me edition
Annie Nightingale didn’t only kick down doors in radio – she held them open by Fiona Sturges Fiona Sturges writes this splendid remembrance of Annie Nightingale, the first woman — and, for a shockingly long time the only woman — to … Continue reading Outside Reading — Spin with Me edition
Outside Reading — Huddled Masses edition
The Democrats Are Falling Into a Trap on Immigration Again by Pedro Gerson Another election year, another cycle of Democrats cravenly acquiescing to the fear-mongering of the right. Same as it ever was. Of course, the media is culpable, too. … Continue reading Outside Reading — Huddled Masses edition
Outside Reading — Veritas edition
What Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me by Claudine Gay The New York Times got played by right-wing muckrakers. The most important newspaper in the country drastically over-covered the ginned up controversies around Claudine Gay, which led directly to … Continue reading Outside Reading — Veritas edition
Outside Reading — Six from 2023
For the past few years, I come every Saturday to my little corner of the digital world to celebrate the pieces written by other people that most deeply burrowed into my brain when I read them during the preceding week. … Continue reading Outside Reading — Six from 2023
Outside Reading — The Spinning Spinner Rack edition
Comics aren’t dying, but they are changing – and that’s got people scared by Heidi MacDonald There are no kerfuffles quite as tedious and toxic as those that churn up around the culture of comic books, at least when they … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Spinning Spinner Rack edition
Outside Reading — Past-Life Arsonists edition
We Three Kings: boygenius On Their Breakout Year by Brady Gerber Even those who engage in only casual perusals of my little corner of the digital world are undoubtedly clear that I wholeheartedly hopped on the boygenius bandwagon at the … Continue reading Outside Reading — Past-Life Arsonists edition
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