In March and April, as a shell-shocked planet tried to deal with a deadly pandemic no one understood, some people in the climate community found a silver lining: At least the world was united in trying to solve the problem.
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Attorney General Bill Barr had already left few doubts about his commitment—or lack thereof—to the American rule of law before this month, having spent the past year carving out a role as President Donald Trump’s long-sought wartime consigliere. In that capacity, Barr has misled the public about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s findings, undermined the prosecutions of presidential allies like Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, and launched investigations that sought to validate Trumpworld conspiracy theories. Читать дальше...
The novel is a matter of seduction. Most novelists ply us with something we cannot resist—language, character, humor, story—to win our attention. Ottessa Moshfegh works by standoffishness, her language lean and efficient, her novels withholding the pleasure of plot or scene. Those novels—Eileen (2015), My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), and, now, Death in Her Hands—are disorienting in a literal sense, their narrators disconnected from any real place but the page. And about those narrators... Читать дальше...
Since lockdown began, I have become essentially reliant on the This Is Janet Jackson playlist on Spotify for my emotional well-being. Early on, I decided to make this reclusive pop star, whose hits “Miss You Much” and “I Get So Lonely” reverberate like erotic anthems of isolation, the official chanteuse of my quarantine. When I logged onto the app last week though, I suddenly noticed a new banner of playlists under the heading “Black Music Matters.” After weeks of being bombarded by empty corporate... Читать дальше...
The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has continued to climb in at least 23 states and reached record highs this week in Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma, among other places. By the end of June, well over 2.3 million people in the country will have been infected, and more than 122,000 people will have died. We remain very much in the middle of a pandemic, but you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Earlier this month, Albertsons—the second-largest grocery chain in the nation, with... Читать дальше...
