'This should be a main role of journalists: to restrain power wherever it is being manifested.'

I wrote about Steve Albini for 4Columns. 4columns.org/frere-jones-sa…

I, for one, would love to read an Albini biography written by Sasha Frere-Jones

So great to see Katie Engelhart & Hannah Dreier's incredible reporting & writing get this recognition from the Pulitzers pulitzer.org/prize-winners-…

Skip the Zadie Smith piece & read this instead lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

Nice to get some recognition for this piece, but extremely depressing that these tenants are still fighting for justice a year later

🚨 LIBERATED!! University of Toronto students have SUCCESSFULLY set up their ENCAMPMENT of King's College Circle in SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE, despite attempts by police to disrupt our non-violent protest.

Welcome to the People's Circle for Palestine.

NYPD officers storm a peaceful campus protest with guns drawn while bombs fall on Rafah. The people who run this country/world are not of us, do not represent us, and cannot be allowed to continue terrorizing us.

If you, like me, feel some dread about what's at the edges of these protests, remember that every protest ever has been garlanded by fools & high emotion, that before social media you'd be seeing only the principle, & the principle is sound.

Columbia, I arrived in New York with a fellowship from you and a hundred and ten dollars borrowed from kind friends in Kolkata to study with Edward Said. It turns out you're still King's College, for empire, for apartheid, for police brutality against your brave students.

Weird to have even a bit part in this Jeff Goldberg remembrance of his romance with Kathy Acker but it's a lovely & moving piece (even if I've never owned a corduroy jacket with suede elbow patches) hobartpulp.com/web_features/k…

One of my favourite concert memories is seeing Hole play Vancouver around Halloween & Courtney throwing apples into the audience, one of which I caught. It was sweaty, I held onto it the whole show, then ate it on the drive home

Brutal, but hardly surprising, news

How long can one besieged, traumatized group of people be shuffled back and forth across the same tiny patch of land and starved and picked off here & there by bullets and bombs while the whole world watches? How can anyone defend this unending nightmare? cnn.com/2024/04/14/mid…

.The Local Magazine does it again. This is gonna be a great, and vital, series

Thrilled that Guy Maddin's latest, RUMOURS, will premiere at Cannes, but why the fuck isn't it in competition? festival-cannes.com/en/press/press…

Wonderful news! Thank you for all your hard work, Animal Justice, Jessica Scott-Reid, M.A., Toronto Cow Save

Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella Hammad, Maaza Mengiste & more have 'signed a damning open letter to PEN America in which they announce they will not participate in this year’s World Voices Festival due to the organization’s inadequate response to the

Of course everyone's going to complain & argue about this list, but I just don't get why I Love Dick gets such a skimpy summary? Two sentences? theatlantic.com/books/archive/…