A gritty Joker-esque Pride & Prejudice reboot?

Journalistic balance I can live with ✅

Pavement’s “Zurich is Stained” revealed as an Iris Murdoch hat tip😲 www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Great @insidehighered.bsky.social essay about the neo-McCarthyite crackdown on academic freedom at Indiana U. Go see Samia Halaby exhibit at Michigan State’s Broad Art Museum if you can!

Exhibit cancellation an insult to academic freedom (opinion)

Alex Lichtenstein writes that the cancellation of an art exhibit at Indiana University was but a prelude to further insults to academic freedom.

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yes

New 7-minute Father John Misty song pretty epic Stay young Get numb Keep dreaming Screamland

“Her faculties remained in her like rats in a ruin. She never slept. She found life highly entertaining” #goals (From Sylvia Townsend Warner, “Winged Creatures”)

Not my very favorite (that would probably be Jude or African Farm), but I had a good experience teaching a short New Woman novel, A Writer of Books by 'George Paston' (Emily Morse Symonds), paired with Gissing's New Grub Street (h/t to Talia Schaffer who'd suggested this)

I wrote a piece about how Vance’s immigration worldview was fundamentally racist, and a columnist at the ny times tut tutted me for my intolerance. Anyway Vance is now spreading blood libels about haitian migrants eating animals