This Week's Writing 6/28/24

Kinds of Kindness, Hidden Figures, Donald Sutherland, and more.

Well, I was going to write something about the debate, but it was too depressing. So…just contemplating Gusgus’ comforting floof instead.

Also! This is what I did publish this week.

Politics

Jamaal Bowman was right; claiming Israel speaks for Jewish people is dangerous. (EIH)

Debates do matter, even though they don’t affect outcomes. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

Kinds of Kindness shows that the workplace is like a cult. (CNN)

How Hidden Figures changed history to make it more white saviory. (EIH)

In praise of Donald Sutherland fighting conformity in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (EIH)

Lily Gladstone’s marvelous Fancy Dance is everything Killers of the Flower Moon was not. (Chicago Reader)

North by Northwest tells you that You are a superspy. (Splice Today)

Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life is a multiverse story for the nonsuper rest of us. (EIH)

Poetry

Didn’t get any poetry published this week, but! just for paid subscribers, I have included a sad poem after the jump. Subs are only $5/month, $50/year, so consider helping me feed the cat/write the poems/stave off despair.