This is a story decades in the making that details the shaping of California agriculture and water, and how it continues to affect politics, marketing, nutrition, immigration, celebrity, and the sheer wealth of two human beings. “A Kingdom From Dust,” by Mark Arax
Whales have begun shouting underwater to be heard over the din of human ships and industry(!!) “Sound off,” by Peter Brannen
“Both Wallace and Jameson, each on his own terms, direct most of their creative energy at the same general project: making sense of the ways in which the world was being remade around them toward the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first, and trying to make peace with how the language they inherited failed to communicate an experience of those changes.” “On Fredric Jameson,” by Alex Carp
“The underpinning of this strategy is the belief that to create great art one must suffer. But method acting has also become wrapped up in a brand of identity politics that tries to make the art form resemble more traditional forms of male labor, and by extension limiting the kinds of actors who receive praise.” “Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting,” by Angelica Jade Bastién
“The future is unpredictable, but the past, up to a point, can be said to be unpredictable, too. Perhaps the tendency to reshape the course of events speaks of a desire to resist necessity and fate. New events alter the perception of previous ones.” “The Permanent Sabbatical,” by Victor Brombert
Many thoughts on the four months I spent with free cold brew, frequent pizza parties, and the anxiety and isolation that dogged it all “SRIRACHA IS FOR CLOSERS,” by Eric Konigsberg
