Once you read this, please check out @elizabethalsop.bsky.social on the trauma backstory 📺 lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

What does this little blue-tagged text box thing mean in a Word document? Why is it there, and how do I make it go away? Thanks, word nerds! ;)

For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

Nice! we got 2 subscriptions out of the 140 we need to smash our goal until tomorrow. I believe in us! do you? the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp

I know you're probably tired of @theflytrapmedia.com's fundraising appeals, but if 529 of you would just subscribe or renew, we could just get back to the business of publishing smart, engaging, wonderful, and sometimes wacky feminist media. PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SUBSCRIBE TODAY.

DC NO KINGS NIGHTMARE THREAD STARTS HERE Heading out from the lovely Rockville Metro station on a beautiful, sunny day in the DMV. Immediate takeaway is this is the furthest out I've ever seen a train packed with people obvious headed to a protest in DC. wtop.com/dc/2025/10/e...

The world is on fire: who wants to read my thoughts and feelings (all positive) on Ted Danson?

this felt too informative not to share

"The suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel felt more like an omen." @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social on censorship, the FCC, and the television industry over time. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/indecent-disposal-fcc-and-the-censoring-of-late-night/

My take on the new Jurassic in the LARB! Spoilers ahead. Credit to @sayanniething.bsky.social for a great edit. As for the title... thanks/apologies to Tennyson. I imagine he'd have written the loveliest verses about suspect food dye and other modern confections, e.g. genetically-engineered wolves.

GILDED AGE and BUCCANEERS both ending their seasons (so long summer)… what should my next period drama be? **extra points for soap and camp!**

“In ‘Other Lives Our Own,’ Weiss wants to awaken readers to all the daily experiences they are not absorbing or even registering.” Caroline Hagood reviews Jason Weiss’s “Other Lives Our Own.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bringing-back-new-concepts-to-this-mad-city/

The summer of submission starts now. LARB Quarterly, no. 45, Submission is finally here, with new essays, fiction, and poetry on the ways we all choose to submit: to our bodies, our families, ourselves, and each other. https://lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

The enduring appeal of 'Clueless' defector.com/ugh-as-if-ta...

If I went around wearing a t shirt that said “I Told You So,” would you think I was referring to Epstein or HBOMax? To be clear, I would mean both.

Millennials may be getting older, but our pop culture stays *the same age* (fun, I mean, HELLO, we're the kids of America)... making my DEFECTOR debut with a review essay on "Clueless" -- many thanks to my editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social for her Cher-like guidance defector.com/ugh-as-if-ta...

Doing some research… what are some (other) books like NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS and THE MOBIUS BOOK, which is to say novels with two somewhat discrete halves that sort of overlap or connect but you need to do the work to figure out why?

I know I’m avant-grade, ahead of the curve, visionary here but I’ll just say it: I think I need to rewatch GIRLS

While I'm asking questions, would anyone like to pay me $50 a year to *not* start a Substack, because honestly, I feel like it'd be a win/win for all of us?

Why should I bother composting my exfoliation wipes now that Leo went to Bezos' wedding?

BY GRABTHAR'S HAMMER, this week @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social are joined by @sayanniething.bsky.social to talk Star Trek, Tim Allen, and perfect comedies (as well as pitching an awesome sequel) as we take on GALAXY QUEST! Here or wherever!

When you can't stop thinking about baby's breath and quiet luxury and the art of good taste, it's time to write a Screen Shots column for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social -- thank you, @elizabethalsop.bsky.social, as ever, for your help on this lareviewofbooks.org/article/mate...

In time for the end of the fiscal year, I took account of Severance for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

"I can’t tell if there’s something under the pageantry that draws me in or if I’m enjoying the aesthetics of a television wishing well," @sayanniething.bsky.social reviews "Materialists," and "With Love, Meghan." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/material-girls/

Does anyone want to commission me to write about THAT MITCHELL AND WEBB LOOK? Please?

#sirens is tonally all over the place but in a GREAT way that was, like, very Shakespearean… midsummer night’s dream (definitely) x winter’s tale (maybe)

we just got jammed

i just feel like everyone wants to talk about walton goggins and everyone loves michaela watkins so why isn't THE UNICORN on everyone's lips? did i dream that show? (it feels like a show i dreamt)

For LARB, I wrote about Yellowjackets, a show I love despite (or maybe because of) its flaws: lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

The @fivesouth.bsky.social website has been updated, so my story, POSTCARDS FROM RENO, is available to read again! If you need a break from doomscrolling, please check out my escapist throwback to this 1930s comedy of remarriage... fivesouth.net/berke-postca...

As of a few days ago, I’m the new Senior Humanities Editor at the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. While my home and heart remain with film and television, I’m thrilled to be commissioning and working with authors in the areas of literature, cultural studies, and the arts.

Overheard on the elementary school playground: “when I’m told I have to organize, I don’t like to organize…”

Check out my (glowing) review of @Kristen_Arnett’s latest at @washingtonpost @BookWorld — many thanks to editor extraordinaire @Jacob_Brogan www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

So proud to be a part of THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SCREEN COMEDY... think about pre-ordering, assigning, or suggesting your library acquire this one! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

BLUME IN LOVE and MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ: A double bill that makes me so so glad that I was never a pretty blonde lady in the '70s.

Can anyone recommend a good essay or article about AI-authored criticism (book/media reviews, stuff like that)? #AI #criticism

If I’m someone who thinks they can’t handle THE SUBSTANCE, am I in fact someone who can’t handle THE SUBSTANCE?

My latest — on Jenny Slate’s LIFEFORM — for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Doubling as a birth announcement of sorts (posting this underneath a 👶🏻)

"Tidy frameworks shield us from discomfiting truths: the random allocation of adversity, the limited control we wield over our fates, the chance that disability will touch our lives." @sophiastewart.bsky.social on disability & representation in "A Different Man." lareviewofbooks.org/article/not-...

“Hawthorne’s fiction invites us to enter his very particular work of feeling, where urgency and enigma come together around the conundrum initially posed by Goodman Brown: Is society good or evil? Do I get involved or do I withdraw?” -Tim Parks @nybooks www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Turning 40 this week, which means I should see myself in this growing genre of how successful mid-life women want to ruin themselves over charismatic young punks... but joke's on the culture, because I'm too immature and not successful enough to see myself in these stories!💥

Nothing, absolutely nothing is permanent so it really is critical to reach for your dreams and make the art you always intended to make.

Good morning, feminist film scholars and historians of bluesky! Might I recommend this wonderful deep dive by @cinemariasf.bsky.social into the work of under-heralded Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett? lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

THE STING (1973) is now the oldest American narrative film on Netflix — one of only 5 released before 1980 on the largest subscription streaming service in the U.S. #Streaming #FilmSky

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It's the final day of our fund drive, and we need your help to hit our goal. As a reader-supported nonprofit, we rely on our LARB community to keep us going, so we can keep our paywall-free writing, public programming, and operations going for you! lareviewofbooks.org/donate?utm_s...

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

Oh boy when that HOME ALONE theme hits, OOF! right in my miniature Grinch-y heart... ❣️