This Week's Writing 6/14/24

A lot on the diaspora, plus superhero fascism, anxiety, Hunter Biden, and more!

Our Goose (in the spectacles) had a happy dog park week. As for me, here’s what I published!

If you read one thing by me this week, read:

Why Jewish women like my grandmother were attracted to Christian Science. (Revealer)

Politics

Alfred Dreyfus and a win over antisemitism (and Zionism.) (EIH)

Hunter Biden’s conviction upends GOP conspiracy mongering. (Public Notice)

Polling isn’t broken; it’s useful to know we don’t know what’s going to happen. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

On a new comp of Abdallah Oumbadougou, Godfather of the desert blues. (No Depression-print)

The Boys S4 captures the exhaustion of fighting fascism. (Observer.com)

As an anxious person, I was cheering for the villain in Inside Out 2. (CNN.com)

Wilder and Hitchcock share the same misogynist smile. (EIH)

Winter’s Bone is a mob film from the perspective of women. (Splice Today)

Robot Dreams is the twee-est film possible about a dog and a robot. (Chicago Reader)

Poetry

On kindles and death. (Five Fleas)

Knowing and Not Knowing

There are books on my kindle
I probably won’t read before I die.

So much knowledge
not in my head when my head
is filled with earth.
Who knows which books?

I mean, Finnegan’s Wake, obviously.
But other than that.

Little confessional poem. (Five Fleas)

You have to love poetry
to be a poet.
But the only poems
I really love
are mine.