Category: music

To read – Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Checkout 19” (Riverhead), “a novel that is deliberate in its construction, down to the individual word, and yet aggressively resistant to definition”, via newyorker.

Shivering Soldier, Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), 2017.

Morrison wants us ashamed of how we treat the powerless, even if we, too, feel powerless.

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There is somebody in all of us. This fact is our shared experience, our shared category: the human.

[…][A] form of self-regard, for Morrison, was the road back to the human—the insistence that you are somebody although the structures you have lived within have categorized you as “nobody.”Zadie Smith, newyorker.