Month: April 2023
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Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflix’s “Beef” | The New Yorker
Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflix’s “Beef”
The drama, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, is a study of male loneliness—a familiar theme in prestige TV that finds renewed urgency in an Asian American context.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/beef-tv-review-netflix
Around the season’s halfway point, I began excitedly telling friends that I’d never seen a more Korean American show. (Not that there’s a lot of competition.) Konglish peppers the scenes between the Chos, as do Koreatown staples like musical rice cookers, space-age massage chairs, and the singsongy ringtone of the Korean
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10 Brutalist Architects You Probably Never Heard Of
10 Brutalist Architects You Probably Never Heard Of
Owen Hopkins’s The Brutalists is an A-to-Z encyclopedia of blocky concrete and utopian ideals.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/802491/10-brutalist-architects-you-probably-never-heard-of/
The Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects by Owen Hopkins (2023) is published by Phaidon and is available online and in bookstores.
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Where the Children Are Buried | The Walrus
Where the Children Are Buried | The Walrus
Thousands of Indigenous children died at residential schools across Canada. This is the story of one community’s search for unmarked graves
via The Walrus: https://thewalrus.ca/where-the-children-are-buried/
For First Nations communities, the “accounting of Indigenous death feels relentless,” wrote Erica Violet Lee, a nêhiyaw writer, scholar, and member of Thunderchild First Nation, in the Guardian. “Our grief and our lives are not reducible to numbers or statistics.” Since the summer of 2021, First Nations across Western Canada have located possible unmarked graves of hundreds, if not thousands, of children on former residential school grounds. It wasn’t until then that, for many Canadians and much of the world, the country’s dark colonial legacy was brought into sharp focus and laid bare.
