Cathy Leaves

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• Links 2/6/17

  Politics: Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement - here's Brookings on what it means, the reaction by former President Obama -... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  Non-Fiction: Lynne Tillman: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?.Fiction: Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale. Ellis Avery: The Last Nude.Lidia Yuknavitch: Dora. A... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – If You Go Back, You’re Gonna Die.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x07 The Other Side. The Other Side feels like an escape. It’s a very deliberate departure from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, whic... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 25/5/17

  

  Politics: This is just one of many stories that would have very likely ended any previous presidency, and yet. Last week, the Washington Post reported that... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - i Was So Young When It Hit Me.

  

  tateishi harumi: clover. [via tumblr]cayetana | bus ticket. camp cope | west side story. the mountain goats | rain in soho. shannon wright | the thirst. slowdiv... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – Are You Happy?

  

  The Handmaid's Tale: 1x06 A Woman's Place.Please, do something. The Handmaid’s Tale has spent a lot of time on investigating how Gilead came into being, how an... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 12/5/17

  Politics: South Korea (and South Korea's President) are growing more concerned about American politics than North Korean ones. Watch out for gerrymandering now... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – What Did You Do to Her?

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x05 Faithful. “I was thinking maybe we could try another way”In many ways, Faithful is about faithlessness, about betrayal. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Blowing the Lid

  Comey’s dismissal is likely to raise questions about whether the White House is interfering in that investigation. In a letter from Trump informing Comey of... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – I Feel Like the Words Shatter.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x04 Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.This entire episode is about the power of words. Words have been taken from Handmaids, because... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale – I Didn’t Even Know Her Name.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x03 Late.Her name is Emily. Imagine what it would have been like for Emily and that unnamed Martha to fall in love under such... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Doomsday Clock

  It is important not to separate the Trump administration’s environmental policies from its broader attack on civil rights. Environmental policy in the U.S. has... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - Now There Has to Be an Us, Because Now There is a Them.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale : 1x02 Birth Day.How do trust, empathy and companionship work in the world of Gilead? We’ve seen many examples in the first episodes of how... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: April.

  Non-Fiction: Olivia Laing: To The River: A Journey Beneath the Surface.Janet Malcolm: Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers.Fiction: John... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - It’s Those Other Escapes.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x01 Offred.Ordinary is just what you’re used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after some time it will. This will become... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Personal Shopper

  

  The easiest entry point into Personal Shopper is through Olivier Assayas previous films, which have one thing in common, in spite of being set in many... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 20/4/17

  Politics: On the double-bind of claiming moral superiority for bombing Syria but also turning away Syrian refugees. And Lawfare on the difficulty of justifying... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Some Thoughts on 'Playtime'

  

  Pretty Little Liars - 7x11 PlaytimeI am very cautious about this last season, and this last half of the season, because at some point about two years ago, this... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Lovesong

  

  I’ve been thinking about this film a lot since seeing it, in spite of the fact that I didn’t particularly enjoy it while watching it. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 7/4/17

  

  Politics: After the revelation that the Syrian government used chemicals (and possibly nerve agents) in an attack that claimed civilian lives in a rebel-held... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO