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Watego’s essays draw from other great Black thinkers to argue for a future based not in inclusion and hope, but self-determination

"Look Who's Talking Now" is a fairly misleading title for those who paid attention during English class, since the talkers are dogs, and so the title of course should be "Look What's Talking Now." Anyone who paid attention during English will also find innumerable other distressing elements in the film, including what teachers used to call "lack of originality and aptness of thought." The movie revisits John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, who in 1989 made a cha...

We don’t need a better guidebook or a different set of rules. We need to change the way we approach the conversation.

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The Psycho-Pharmaceutical Complex   The following interview is part of a “future of mental health” interview series that will be running for 100+ days. This series presents different points of view about what helps a person in distress. I’ve aimed to be ecumenical and included many points of view different from my own. I hope you enjoy it. As with every service and resource in the mental health field, please do your due diligence. If you’d like to learn more about these philosophies, s...

Listen Live Weekly Links to streaming book and theatre events. Bay Area Book Festival Richard Flanagan, Thursday June 3, 7 pm. See website for streaming events from the 2021 festival Books Inc  Stacey Abrams, May 13, 6 pm. Jhumpa Lahiri, May 18, 6 pm; Rachel Kushner, May 20, 5 pm; Michael Lewis, May 20, 6 pm. Andy Weir, May 27, 5 pm. Book Passage.   Ian Manuel, May 16, 4 pm. Neal Allen with Anne Lamott, May 27, 5 pm. The Booksmith   The Bindery has moved to 1727 Haight Street in San Franci...

For Vogue’ s April issue, we asked a wide-ranging group of creatives to show us—and tell us—how they’ve been spending their time, whether inside or outside, housebound or on the go. Here, we visit the model and actress Dilone in her Long Island hometown. . “It was so chaotic,” Dilone says drolly, describing her youth in suburban Long Island. The eighth of 10 children (six girls and four boys), the 26-year-old model, born Janiece Altagracia Dilone, grew up constantly upgrading bedroo...

16.9 The first year of our marriage, I found a full pill case pushed behind some bottles of shampoo under the bathroom sink. They belonged to my husband’s first wife, Danielle, from years earlier, before her fight with cancer ended in death. My husband, Evan, apologized—not because he had done anything wrong but because he could not prevent these reminders of grief from occasionally falling out of closets and drawers. This is where they had lived together. Where she baked, laughed, and lost...

Perhaps, in the decades to come, some enterprising religious historian will study how the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 affected Christian magazine journalism. Fair warning: You won’t find anything terribly eye-opening in CT’s books coverage. As the editor chiefly responsible for that coverage, I remember feeling a tad sheepish at our morning check-in meetings during those first few locked-down weeks in March and April. Updates from colleagues throbbed with urgency. They were commissioning t...

Supposed to stick to that message, the message we have been hearing for weeks. but he had a lot of questions and a lot of relentless questioning and eventually said this. and of course we saw him quickly backtrack on that. and, you know, i think that initially i had heard that from a lot of people that trump was initially pleased with how he had done. he liked his attitude. he was sparring with reporters, talking back, saying it doesnt matter, who cares. get over it is the line you used. but whe...