Cathy Leaves

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• Day One

  "Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• American Dream(s)

  

  There is so much heartbreak in Miss Juneteenth and in Minari, but they are both portrays of the United States, of what it means to chase a dream with limited... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• An Attempted Coup.

  The day after two Democratic wins in the Georgia run-off election with gives the Democratic Party control of both houses, this. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Ellie & Abbie (and Oh No, Why Did It Have to Have Teeth in the Title)

  

  Monica Zanetti’s Ellie Abbie came out shortly before Christmas, but is not really a Christmas movie – but it’s difficult to think about this film and not... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading Notes: Hari Kunzru's Red Pill

  

  I never expect novels by non-German or Austrian writers to take me back to my eight years of German literature education, in which we dis- and reassembled... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• His House

  

  This is your home now. In 2004, a collection of European film-makers created an anthology film called Visions of Europe. I can’t recall the details of many of... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Ww84

  I didn’t want to write about things this year that didn’t provide me with joy, or intellectual stimulation, or at least made me glad I had spent time on them.... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2021 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  Best new show: I May Destroy YouMichaela Coel creates a fictionalised account of the fall-out of a rape, of trying to make sense and find footing again without... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  Albums: Cable Ties: Far Enough.Sweeping Promises: Hunger For a Way Out.Shopping: All Or Nothing.Faithless: All Blessed.Caribou: Suddenly.Kaki King: Modern... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Andrea Long Chu: Females.Aaron Bastani: Fully Automated Luxury Communism.Fiction: Robin Talley: The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre.Gilly MacMillan:... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  The Half of ItFreemanBirds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley QuinnThe AssistantShirleyTerminator: Dark Fate (2019)Troop Zero... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Wilds

  

  I don’t know how long it took for this show to hit the point where it felt almost exactly like that moment, a few years ago, where Pretty Little Liars was the... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• A Frivolous Case

  "Still, the fact that so many powerful Republican politicians endorsed Paxton’s Hail Mary is a profoundly disturbing sign for American democracy. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November

  Non-Fiction: Becky Cooper: We Keep the Dead Close. Lee Tran Lam (ed.): New Voices on Food. Diversity in Food Media.Fiction: Elizabeth Bear: Ancestral Night.Emil... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• "Appeasement Didn’t Work in the 1930s and It Won’t Work Now."

  "Nevertheless, we get this hopelessly naïve version of centrism, of the idea that if we’re nicer to the other side there will be no other side, just one big... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transitioning from Chaos

  The most remarkable experience of this Presidential election has been the gradual appearance of a result - I was 13 in 2000, and didn't have much sense of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - It's Too Close for Comfort

  

  Veronika Gilková - Misc bananarama | cruel summer. warpaint | so good. thao the get down stay down | temple. laura marling | strange girl. kaki king |... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Re-discovering Rejoined

  

  It was the week of the 2020 US Presidential Election, so nothing else really got through, nothing felt important or intense enough to break the cycle of... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Plain Bad Heroines

  

  Emily M. Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines (aided by beautiful illustrations by Sara Lautman) is a matryoshka doll of a story. Nesting – and what a great... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• "We Did It Joe"

  It is finally done. After days of following the counting of the votes in the remaining states on the map, Biden's lead in Pennsylvania and Nevada finally... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO