The Weekend’s Reading, August 26–27, 2017
I didn’t post it.
Trump
Monique Judge, The Root, Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump, Writes ‘Blunt Resignation Letter’ and Leaves Administration (August 25, 2017)
Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, Trump Called Out a Republican Senator Because He Doesn’t Understand How Any of This Works (August 25, 2017)
Jeff Shesol, The New Yorker, Trump Abandons the Bully Pulpit (August 24, 2017) — this is good
Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, Why Donald Trump Pardoned Joe Arpaio (August 26, 2017)
Aimée Lutkin, The Slot, John Kelly Is Desperately Trying to Keep Donald Trump From Knowing Anything (August 24, 2017) — you knew this, but: he is a child
Fonts
Bobby Finger, Jezebel, Even the Dumbest Us Weekly Headlines Look Great In New Yorker Font (August 24, 2017)
Clothes
Megan Reynolds, The Muse, No One Wants to Wear a Going-Out Top Ever Again (August 23, 2017)
Louise Linton
Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, Louise Linton Isn’t Mad. You’re Mad (August 22, 2017) — this is great
Megan Reynolds, The Slot, Louise Linton Is Sorry About Her Shameless Instagram Post and Rude Reply (August 23, 2017) — spoiler: no she isn’t
Journalism
John Nichols, The Nation, What ‘The Village Voice’ Taught Us About Speaking Truth to Power (August 23, 2017)
Politics
Nate Silver, Five Thirty Eight, 7 Rules For Reading Trump’s Approval Rating (August 24, 2017)
Jared Keller, Pacific Standard, Welcome to the New Age of Anarcho-Fascism (August 25, 2017)
Branko Marcetic, In These Times, Don’t Coddle Liberal Politicians Like Kamala Harris — History Shows They Should Be Pressured (August 23, 2017) — I’d like to think this is an obvious point, but I guess not
Ghosts
Sadie Stein, The Paris Review, Harry: A Ghost Story (August 25, 2017)
Veils
Rafia Zakaria, The Paris Review, Putting on the Veil: Boys Invade an All-Girls School (August 23, 2017)
Music
Briana Younger, Pitchfork, Daniel Caesar: Freudian (August 26, 2017)
Alfred Soto, Pitchfork, Filthy Friends: Invitation (August 26, 2017) — Corin Tucker + Peter Buck???
Rob Harvilla, The Ringer, Sam Hunt Is the Future of Country Music (August 25, 2017)
Jem Aswad, Variety, Album Review: The War on Drugs’ ‘A Deeper Understanding’ (August 25, 2017)
Eric Harvey, The New Yorker, An Obsessive Guide to Music Played at the Gap in the Nineties and Early Aughts (August 25, 2017)
Crime
Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, What Will Be Preet Bharara’s Legacy? (August 24, 2017)
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, Why the Bundys and Their Heavily Armed Supporters Keep Getting Away with It (August 25, 2017) — their white
Movies
Sheila O’Malley, Roger Ebert.com, Beach Rats (August 25, 2017)
Glenn Kenny, Roger Ebert.com, Bushwick (August 25, 2017)
Simon Abrams, Roger Ebert.com, The Villainess (August 25, 2017)
Scout Tafoya, Roger Ebert.com, Birth of the Dragon (August 25, 2017)
K. Austin Collins, The Ringer, ‘Beach Rats’ Is a Sexual Coming-of-Age Story That Crackles With the Unknown (August 25, 2017)
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, The Misunderstood Ambition of “Hudson Hawk” (August 24, 2017)
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, Steven Soderbergh’s Tangy, Folksy Return with “Logan Lucky” (August 24, 2017)
Bannon
Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, How Steve Bannon Lost the Battle for the Soul of Trumpism (August 23, 2017)
Afghanistan
Rafia Zakaria, The Baffler, General McMaster and the Miniskirts (August 24, 2017)
Copy
Kyle Paoletta, The Baffler, Élite Politesse (August 23, 2017) — on The New Yorker’s famous style
LA
Linda Poon, Pacific Standard, L.A. Is Testing a New, Communal Approach to Fighting Homelessness (August 24, 2017)
Jokes
Dennis Young, The Awl, Clay Travis’s ESPN Joke, Workshopped (August 23, 2017)
Websites
Kevin Roderick, LA Observed, Memo: New LA Times publisher drops web widget (August 25, 2017) — this is good; the LAT website is misery
Law
Jedediah Purdy, n+1, Laundered Violence (August 23, 2017) — on the violence inherent in law
Religion
Jordan Ritter Conn, The Ringer, “You Don’t Make Deals With God” (August 25, 2017)
Tennis
Chris Almeida, The Ringer, Alexander Zverev Is Not Like the Next Big Things Who Came Before Him (August 25, 2017)
Baseball
Michael Baumann, The Ringer, Archie Bradley Doesn’t Want to Be the Best Reliever in Baseball — but He Is (August 23, 2017)
Michael Baumann, The Ringer, Is Boston’s Rafael Devers Better Than New York’s Aaron Judge and the Rest of Baseball’s Top Rookies? (August 25, 2017) — I don’t disagree with any of this except maybe Moncada
Basketball
Paolo Uggetti, The Ringer, Why Do So Many NBA Teams Try to Trade Their Stars for Klay Thompson? (August 24, 2017)
Media
Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, Why Sage Steele Needs to Go Sit Down and Stare Longingly at the Stirring Teaspoon (August 25, 2017) — it took me until the end of the article to realize, dummy me, that that’s a Get Out reference
Monique Judge, The Grapevine, Dear Stacey Dash: Go Sit Your Ass Down Somewhere (August 24, 2017)
Gustavo Turner, LA Weekly, Tattooed-Porn Queen Joanna Angel on Why “the Stepbrother” Is Porn’s New “Pizza Guy” (August 23, 2017)
