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The visual tricks, stagecraft and misdirection used to fool the Nazis in 1944
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Ahead of the Champions League’s impending changes, Marcus, Jim and Andy look back over some of their favourite moments from this era of the competition - from peak Jose Mourinho shithousing to some of the defining teams and managers synonymous with that magical anthem.
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As of this moment, my daughter is on the longest reading bender of her young life. She picked up the Percy Jackson series about a week ago, burned through that, and now is on to the Heroes of Olympus part of the saga (is it a saga? I don’t know. She talks to me about it and I try to follow, but she is learning that relaying the complex web of relationships and beat-by-beat plot recaps are not the stuff of riveting conversation).
And I said to her, on one of several of our “must-immediately-get-the-next-book” missions to the bookstore, that what she is doing right now just might be my favorite reading experience. To be in the middle of a series, a good long one, that you love and that you still have a lot to get through. That feeling of urgent abundance where it seems like you are going to be in this story with these characters forever and that the real world seems just a little dimmer than usual and the page a little brighter.
This got me thinking about what are the other best things that can happen to you as a reader. Being mid-gulp in wolfing down a series is clearly number one for me, but the rest of these aint bad either.
There’s a New book by a Favorite Author
This is even better if a) it’s been awhile since their last book and/or b) you might have even stopped thinking/remembering that there ever could be a new one. Which is related to….
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Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.
Reflecting on 75 Years of the National Book Awards
In the run-up to the 75th anniversary of the National Book Awards later this year, The Washington Post has invited authors who have been honored by the NBAs to write a series of essays exploring the history and impact of the Awards, decade by decade. Viet Thanh Nguyen kicks things off with an examination of what the first National Book Awards reflected about the 1950s in America. In the process, he does the best job I’ve seen anyone do trying to evaluate what, if anything, book awards mean in the big picture.
…Many prize winners have been forgotten; conversely, many older books still read today never won awards in their time. Prizes sometimes predict a future member of the literary hall of fame; sometimes they’re simply given to the books that a majority of judges can agree on. Juries are not immune to the passions and prejudices of their times, so it’s no surprise that they can be both prophetic and fallible.
Adaptations for Your Summer Couch Party
We’re in a season of extremely mid TV and movies, but the adaptations keep coming. The big highlight of June’s watchlist is House of the Dragon season 2, but there are plenty of alternatives if boobs-and-dragons isn’t your jam. Hulu’s adaptation of Queenie (coming June 7) looks promising, or you could go a little more avant garde with Max’s Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play., a documentary in which playwright Jeremy O. Harris deconstructs his well-known Slave Play. Let’s be real, though. Crazy Rich Asians is hitting Netflix on the 6th, and when Crazy Rich Asians is an option, it is the best option.
17 New Books to Read in June
It used to be that fall and winter were for “serious” reading and summer was almost exclusively about beachy fare (romances, thrillers, and women’s fiction) and Dad Books (presidential biographies and popular nonfiction), but those days are, blessedly, long gone. Exhibit A is the NYT‘s round-up of 17 new books coming in June, which contains multitudes that range from literary fiction like Fire Exit by Morgan Talty and Parade by Rachel Cusk to a history of reality television, an autobiography by Anthony Fauci, and Akwaeke Emezi’s latest genre-defying tale. Good news for eclectic readers!
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Editorial cartoons are a powerful medium. Like local news itself, the editorial cartoon has become a rarer institution, with few papers employing a staff member whose job is to create editorial cartoons (either full or part-time). But when editorial cartoons do start to make the rounds, they’re powerful reminders of the potency a visual can have to tell a story with few, if any, words.
Comics are among the most targeted books in the current rise of book banning, but they’ve also earned this dubious honor since their widespread availability following World War II. You can see how eager book banners are to remove comics by perusing the most frequently banned comics since 2000 — and you can and should get to know the history of the juvenile delinquency hearings which centered on moral panic over young people’s access to comics.
Book banning and the “culture wars” have seen their time in the editorial cartoon sun. Let’s look at a handful of these images from the past several years. All credit is given to the creators so you can discover some of their other work as well. Of note and of what should be little surprise given the lack of editorial cartoonists working and the field of comics more broadly, the artists here are overwhelmingly male because I’ve stuck to more mainstream media.
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Free Press, 9/8/23
You might recall this particularly chilling editorial cartoon from Bennett. Not only does it depict the bloodshed Moms for Liberty is proud to be associated with, but it was then manipulated by Moms For Liberty in order to further push the very message conveyed in the comic. This is one of my favorite comics to use not only because of how much of the story it tells but because the response that follows is such an excellent example of how groups like Moms have profited and grown from flagrant mis-, dis-, and mal- information.
JD Crowe, for AL.com/Alabama Media Group, March 8, 2023
Nothing more needs to be said than what is said in the image alone. But Crowe doesn’t actually just drop the cartoon. He’s also written an excellent piece to accompany it that is worth reading.
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