Chief Justice John Roberts got the chance to complete the Day of Jubilee he declared in Shelby County. The 14th Amendment is now magically and completely converted into a vehicle for white victimhood. Justice Clarence Thomas gets to take his twisted self-loathing out for another walk. And affirmative action is now as dead as Roger Taney because, you know, colorblind. By deciding Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court kept faith with conservatism's multi-decade alliance with the remnants of American apartheid. As Garrett Epps pointed out on the electric Twitter machine, when Roberts was just starting out, he tried to get Ronald Reagan to abolish affirmative action by executive order. Roberts has been in this for the long haul. |
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Nili Lotan's supremely soft yet structured piece has a famous name for a reason. |
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Conventional wisdom in the publishing industry says that books either too long or too short won't sell to the general reader. Thanks to factors like dwindling attention spans, less leisure time, and price hikes across paperbacks and hardcovers, short texts—novellas, standalone short stories, poetry collections, plays, and experimental cross-genre works—are finally getting their due. On a wider scale, Annie Ernaux's Nobel Prize last fall was "a big win for the slim volume," per author Alexandra Kleeman, a sentiment that McNally Jackson assistant manager Jack Kyono heard repeated throughout awards season. One of Kyono's colleagues even speculated that 2023 could be "'the year of the slim volume,'" he said. Though he isn't entirely convinced, he has noticed a trend of imprints releasing dedicated series of novellas or standalone stories and essays. |
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You waited a long time for this moment. |
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On June 29, 2023, Alan Arkin died at age 89. Back in the January 2007 issue of Esquire, the Little Miss Sunshine and Argo actor shared what he had learned about improvisation, education, and growing old. "As you get older, you have to change your view of what your life is," Arkin said. "Your physiology is going to demand certain things of you, and you either have to pay attention to it or die. I'm on regimens now — there are things I have to do. If you surrender to it, there's a certain peace you can achieve, rather than saying, I gotta be the way I was." |
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