Art night: Tuesday's three things

Julia Smith

Julia Smith

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Item 1. Poems

Mohammad El-Kurd's Tonight we die as a family (IG/Poetry Review), Ilya Kaminsky's We Lived Happily During the War (Poetry Foundation), Alexis Pauline Gumbs's A Variation on Joy, for Sayden al-Najjar (alexispauline.com), Anand Giridharadas's I was going to be brave (The Ink).

Item 2. Books

Smart newsjacking by the Chicago Teachers Union. (IG)

Item 3. TV

Yes, I want to boycott Amazon, AND I want to watch this show that The Guardian calls “a truly special comedy that’s packed with 00s nostalgia” (which I learned about via show creative director/writer Mona Chalabi’s IG post).

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