Reed McConnell

Jan 6, 2025 | thebaffler.com | Dylan Levi King |Bryony Lau |Zoe Hu |Reed McConnell

The yen is low, and everybody is coming to Tokyo. If that sounds familiar, it’s not because I’m being coy or hedging my bets; it is the only information to be found in most English-language coverage of Japan’s capital in the aftermath of the pandemic. I can’t stop reading these accounts.

Aug 22, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Reed McConnell

Jordan Peterson is sitting in a room. Behind him are indistinct images, partly obscured in the dim light and cut off by the camera’s frame. (Perhaps they are the Soviet propaganda posters purported to cover every wall of his home — a constant reminder of the dangers of ideology.) Today he is being featured on the Rubin Report, a podcast hosted by the conservative commentator Dave Rubin.

May 26, 2023 | frieze.com | Reed McConnell

Halfway through Johanna Hedva’s novel Your Love is Not Good (2023), the narrator – a half-white, half-Korean painter from Los Angeles – wakes up to news that a rising young Black artist, Iris Wells, has just launched a boycott of all major art institutions. Iris’s announcement is accompanied by a manifesto excoriating an art world that treats artists of colour like tokens, as well as the artists of colour who willingly participate in their own exploitation.