Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently by Amanda Hess This fantastic profile of Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor, who also goes by the name Shuhada Sadaqat, offers a definitive, paper-of-record pardon of the artist’s notorious rending of a religious figure’s photograph. Better … Continue reading Outside Reading — Very Much an Irish Woman edition
The Girl in the Kent State Photo by Patricia McCormick More than fifty years after the Kent State shootings, Patricia McCormick profiles the girl who was at the center of the most famous photo of the government’s crime against the … Continue reading Outside Reading — This Summer I Heard the Drumming edition
The Year Has Taught Me a Lot About Nostalgia by Leslie Jamison Writing for The New York Times, as part of a set of reflections on one full year of living with the pandemic, Leslie Jamison pointedly addresses the problematic … Continue reading Outside Reading — Misty Watercolor Memories edition
Seattle’s Virus Success Shows What Could Have Been by Mike Baker “If the rest of the United States had kept pace with Seattle, the nation could have avoided more than 300,000 coronavirus deaths.” That sentence, from this piece of New … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Emerald Standard
Birds Of Prey’s costumes changed the game for female superheroes by Caroline Siede Although I remain devoted to the Academy Awards as an important and reasonably effective — if hardly infallible — measure of what should be added to the ongoing … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn’s Wardrobe
The Cosmic Journey of Kacey Musgraves by Alex Morris I feel unkind making this admission: I am intensely excited about the next Kacey Musgraves album because it is being written from a place of heartbreak. Dazzling as her two most … Continue reading Outside Reading — Sturm und Twang edition
‘Stop the Steal’ Didn’t Start With Trump by Jamelle Bouie As Jamelle Bouie forcefully, smartly argues in this editorial, published by The New York Times, there’s nothing new about the Republican rhetoric that led directly to lawless storming of the … Continue reading Outside Reading — See Who They Are edition
Black Voters Understood What the Stakes Were by Clint Smith In part because of the damage wrought by the pliant disciples of the psychopathic blowhard who has commanded too much of our collective intellectual, emotional, and spiritual energy the last … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Road Leads Back to You edition
Texas Wedding Photographers Have Seen Some $#!+ by Emily McCullar Writing for Texas Monthly, Emily McCullar details the dilemma faced by wedding photographers in the state she covers, which presumably mirrors the experiences of similar professionals across the country. McCullar … Continue reading Outside Reading — Photo Negative edition
The kids aren’t alright: How Generation Covid is losing out by Federica Cocco The cataclysmic failure of national leadership — and, to a more varied degree, state and local leadership — has wreaked havoc on communities coast to cost, including … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Unreal World edition
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