Mid-March Digest
A few recent top 10's in entertainment, for the coming weeks in self-isolation.
Top 10: Essays That I've Read Recently
CJ Hauser, "The Crane Wife" in The Paris Review
Sophie Lewis, "Who Liberates the Slaves?" in The White Review
Angelica Jade Bastién, "It Doesn't Take Much to Be an Unruly Woman" in Vulture
Philippa Snow, "Brilliant Muscles" in The White Review
Elizabeth Schambelan, "Everybody Knows" in n+1
Lauren Michele Jackson, "When ‘Representation Matters’ Becomes a Meaningless Rallying Cry" in Vulture
Elizabeth Renzetti, "Wealth won't save America - let alone the world" in The Globe & Mail
Rachel Eve Moulton, "On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women" in Literary Hub
Michelle Chihara, "In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?" in Literary Hub / from the book Slouching Toward Los Angeles
Michael Almereyda, "Badlands: Misfits" for Criterion
Top 10: Books That I've Read Recently
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
Maggie Nelson, Bluets
bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (third re-read)
Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir
Gayle Salamon, The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Aruna D'Souza, Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in Three Acts
Top 10: Films That I've Seen Recently

Claire Denis, Beau Travail (1999)
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019) - Netflix
Jacques Rivette, Jeanne la Pucelle (1994) - Kanopy
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shoplifters (2018) - Netflix
Věra Chytilová, Daisies (1966) - Criterion, Kanopy
Céline Sciamma, Water Lilies (2001) - Criterion

7. Jacques Rivette, The Nun/La Religieuse (1966) - Criterion
8. Terrence Malick, Badlands (1973)
9. Alma Ha'arel, Honey Boy (2019) - Amazon
10. Sally Potter, Ginger & Rosa (2012) - Kanopy
Top 10: Songs That I've Been Listening To
Sharon Van Etten, Seventeen
Lana del Rey, Mariner's Apartment Complex
Haim, The Steps
fka Twigs, Home With You
Frankie Cosmos, Young
Videoclub, Roi
Frankie Cosmos, Owens
Kelsey Lu, Time
Corinne Bailey Rae, Put Your Records On
The Cranberries, Dreams
Top 5: Short Films Streaming for Free
Andrea Arnold, Wasp
Julie Dash, Illusions
Vincent Haycock & Kelsey Lu, Shades of Blue
Rosemary Butcher, Body as Site
Crystal Moselle, That One Day