What the hell

At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:

Great Tom Nichols atomic film piece in the latest Atlantic.

Absolutely fantastic article on Heaney from Caitlyn Flanagan at @theatlantic.com. ""When Seamus stood up and read the poem, “Baptism: for Ellen and Kate Flanagan,” I accepted everything—all of it, all at once: poetry, God, and myself." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

#Severance
#SZA

Augusta Britt is one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history, giving life to dozens of Cormac McCarthy’s characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywood films.

For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her story—until now.

🔗: vanityfair.visitlink.me/HmC3ka

@emilynussbaum.bsky.social profiles the director Marielle Heller ahead of the release of her new film, “Nightbitch,” a darkly funny fable about how motherhood changes women by forcing them to tap into a feral physicality.

Have crowds actually changed—or is it simply that the words we use to describe them have altered over time? @adamgopnik.bsky.social writes about how crowds persist as historical agents and have become a field of study.

In setting, subject matter, and theme, “Say Nothing,” stands “refreshingly apart from most other American programming, and its longitudinal account of political disillusionment makes it one of the year’s finest shows.” @inkookang.bsky.social reviews the FX drama.

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett, two champions of birth control in the early 20th century, would probably remain rivals if they were alive today. “But they would both be appalled to learn how many of their battles are still being fought,” Margaret Talbot writes.

For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks.

Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

During the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. What’s going on?

A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again

Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease

How America Embraced Gender War

Please support bookshops.

Independent bookshops.

They are so wonderful. Yes you pay a little more.

But I think of it as paying for the experience.

The experience of browsing.

And that oh-so-important bookshop smell. 🖖
Fu** big corporations.