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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercraft.substack.com | Lincoln Michel |Lyta Gold
If you somehow missed it, there was amusing discourse last month about whether anyone should be expected to have heard of some old-ass poem named the Odyssey. It was kicked off when Matt Ramos—an influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers—expressed surprise that Christopher Nolan was adapting a random poem. Apparently, quite a lot of people had never heard of, much less read, the Odyssey.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
porchlightbooks.com | Karthik Ramanna |Lyta Gold |Serene J. Khader |Glory Edim
Finding the right book at the right time can transform your life or your organization. We help you discover your next great read by showcasing four recently released titles each week. The books are chosen by Porchlight's Managing Director, Sally Haldorson, and the marketing team: Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, and Jasmine Gonzalez.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Lyta Gold |Bob Woodward |Alok Vaid-Menon
An engrossing and ominous chronicle, told by a master of the form. In his most recent behind-the-scenes account of political power and how it is wielded, Woodward synthesizes several narrative strands, from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel to the 2024 presidential campaign. Woodward’s clear, gripping storytelling benefits from his legendary access to prominent figures and a structure of propulsive chapters.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
nyra.nyc | Lyta Gold
Spatializing Reproductive Justice was on view this summer at the Center for Architecture. Spaces, like bodies, is one of those words that—when it appears in the context of cultural institutions or academia—has a terrible tendency to obscure more than it reveals, transforming alive and vital ideas into cold and inert objects.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Lyta Gold
Michigan, according to the national progressive media apparatus, is a state that pops into existence every four years in order to help win or lose the presidential election. For Democrats, it’s an essential piece of “the blue wall” along with Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, without which an electoral college victory is generally impossible. And earlier this summer, it indeed looked impossible.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
nyra.nyc | Lyta Gold
Every article I read about homeownership tells me it’s a terrible time to buy a house. You idiot, these articles say to me. You absolute moron. Even the Wall Street Journal, the paper of record for America’s business class, recently told would-be homebuyers to keep dreaming: “There’s never been a worse time to buy instead of rent.” It’s not just that it’s currently a bad time to buy a house; according to Atlantic, there will “never be a good time” to do it.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Andrew Wilson |A. S. Hamrah |Marlowe Granados |Lyta Gold
It’s 2016. I’m a contemporary artist and have been living off of Medicaid, food stamps, and $20k annually since graduating from art school five years ago. I see the return policies offered by Bezos and the Waltons as loan agreements; I lend them $1,500, and the interest they pay is my use of a new hard drive. While TurboTaxing I hallucinate a DJ software skin and use the expense estimate sliders as fraud modulators.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Jennifer Berkshire |Lyta Gold |Maud Newton
The poll results were ominous. In a survey of Houston teachers in late 2023, more than 42 percent said they wouldn’t be returning for the next school year. That’s on top of the teachers who’ve recently left Texas’s largest school district. Between last August and early January 2024, 633 teachers resigned, more than double the number that left during the second pandemic school year of 2021–2022. Such data should be cause for alarm in a state that is now losing a record number of teachers.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Lyta Gold
Why watch the Republican national debates? The voters have already picked their candidate. It won’t be Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a creature of the Florida swamps who can’t breathe any other atmosphere, and who squirms on stage like a bully called into the principal’s office after an unspeakable prank. It won’t be former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, the preferred candidate of the New York Times who is desperately trying to not come across as the preferred candidate of the New York Times.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Pooja Bhatia |Lyta Gold
Earthquakes are short; their aftermaths are long. Within thirty-five seconds on January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude quake laid waste to Haiti’s capital, killed too many people to count, and turned more than a million others out of their homes. Well before the last remains were pulled from the rubble, health workers were preparing for the next catastrophe: an outbreak of waterborne disease.
