Fred Bass, owner of the Strand, has passed away at eighty-nine
With sadness, we report that Fred Bass, the man behind the beloved Strand bookstore, passed away last Wednesday at the age of eighty-nine. In a New York Times obituary, William Grimes lays out… Read more »
In Alabama, a daily newspaper has its #MeToo reckoning, forty years late
The #metoo movement has, since its inception, been a mixed bag, emotionally: the relief that, finally, this sort of behavior is receiving a social shaming long past due, combined with the… Read more »
The first film written in San Andres-Providencia Creole is here
You’d be forgiven for missing some of the end-of-year highlights in international film as 2017 came to a close. You did, after all, have other stuff going on. But let’s take a look… Read more »
China’s Xi Jinping is a president who reads books
If it wasn’t clear already, Donald Trump is not a reader. We’ve written about this here and here — suffice it to say that between sexually harassing a bigly number of women, surviving scalp surgery, and enduring… Read more »
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