Month: April 2023
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Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflix’s “Beef” | The New Yorker
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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…
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10 Brutalist Architects You Probably Never Heard Of
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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
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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…