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Don't want to hear you Christopher Nolan diehards breathe a disparaging word about Swifties ever again. Good lord

To be fair, it's not stunt commissioning. Wilson has been an LRB contributor since 2004. She co-hosted a superb multi-episode LRB podcast, Among the Ancients. (Did two seasons of it, in fact.)

And speaking of translators, Daniel Mendelsohn isn't terribly fond of Nolan's movie either

By the way the LRB site is back up and Wilson's piece is great

All kidding aside I love Emily Wilson's translation. (And her mind/wit/moral intelligence in general.) Can't wait to read her new book. Et cetera. But the rolling, tolling grandeur of Fagles' Odyssey (& Iliad) is my fave. Welcome to the Thunderdome.

Where are my Robert Fagles stans?

Yep

You had one job etc.

Setsuko Hara in Late Spring

Big day for "emergency pods"

Tediously obvious but: Dems have peddled this line—"If you vote for anyone but centrist milquetoasts disaster will strike"—for decades Argument has no credibility: corporate Dems sold out the country, lost elections, gave us Trump Now Bulwark Republicans are serving up the same lecture? Nein danke

"The vibes may be exciting, but" say the geniuses at The Bulwark. Whatever you do, don't support candidates that excite & inspire voters! Huge red flag!

You did misinterpret. My point isn't "PMB says: funny joke.” My point is: "PMB says Podhoretz’s post about big black guys has something to do w/the Borscht Belt & the contingent nature of Jewish whiteness." Which is a weird response to an objectively bonkers post by a dipshit provocateur.

"You invented something about me having found it a clever and funny remark." No I didn't. I never said that, never intimated it, never thought it. That's your thing. What I said, & what I'm saying again, that your interpretation is out to lunch. Not sure I can spell it out any clearer!

Here's some context: the author of the tweet is John Podhoretz. You're familiar w/his work & politics? If so, can you fathom why one might conclude JP is being a racist schmuck, as he's done for decades? Roping-in "Jewish humor," Philip Roth, racial "blurriness" etc is (I'm being polite) a stretch

And what I'm saying is, that is a generous (to put it mildly) reading of the guy's tweet about "big black guys with muscles." As for "Jewish-white blurriness": that's just bizarre & I have no idea how you think it relates to the wisecrack (if you insist) in question.

Great piece

For sure

By the way if you're into dub but want to dig deeper, the treasure map nonpareil is this famous list from a 1977 issue of the UK magazine Black Echoes