“Well we were just talking about the Christie Minstrels and now here’s Julie Christie!”
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A beautiful @newyorker.com profile by @mikespies.bsky.social of an ordinary woman who lived through extraordinary tragedy www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to CollectThe majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying.www.newyorker.comThe real LRB heads are more excited about a new Jenny Turner piece
London Review of Books‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s new and self-created version of the modernist sentence mixes Scots and English to resemble “a meandering, live thought-process”, as Ali Smith puts it: “poetic and realist and soaring and dark and local and strange all at once”.’ Jenny Turner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
There’s so much discourse now that a lot of discourse consists of attempts to rule other discursive interventions illegitimate in the desperate hope that we can somehow stem the tide of discourse
Tom EwingOf course it's going to be interesting seeing what the top translator of the Odyssey has to say about the film. I want to hear that angle, that's a huge get for the LRB. It's also very weird to grab onto it as a kind of gotcha
If there was a big movie by a serious director about plumbing — and honestly that sounds great — I would definitely want to read, in addition to the assessments of all my favorite movie critics, a plumber’s perspective on it
Mark HarrisMy take on today's Odyssey controversy is, with all respect to everyone involved, that plumbers generally shouldn't review movies about plumbing.
This but sincerely! I’m inferring from the rest of Sam’s thread that he’s not really applauding the snobbery, but highbrow disdain is one of the necessary conditions for thriving middlebrow culture, it’s dialectical
Sam AdamsI think it’s nice that The Odyssey has brought back not only middlebrow blockbusters but old-fashioned literary snobbery
The greatest radio sitcom of all time, CABIN PRESSURE, features a smoothie character played by Roger Allam, and halfway through they introduce Anthony Head as a rival who’s even smoother, and in s03e05 the two of them get into a vocal smooth-off, and it’s pure delight books.apple.com/us/audiobook...
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