GREAT piece. See if you can get it at nymag.com

 

Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years

The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men. From ‘The Guardian’:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/13/jack-kerouac-still-roadworthy-after-100-years?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

A Russian Journalist Who Stayed Behind

As the war escalates, real reporting from within Putin’s circle has become nearly impossible. By David Remnick for ‘The New Yorker’: 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-russian-journalist-who-stayed-behind

 

I’m reading this now. I bought it before any Ukrainians were in dire trouble and heading to Poland. It’s written by a Polish writer. It was written in Polish. Translated. She won the Nobel Prize a couple years ago. 

 

HOW RUSSIA’S NOBEL-WINNING NEWSPAPER IS COVERING UKRAINE

‘We continue to call war war,’ Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, said. ‘We are waiting for the consequences.’

   https://apple.news/ABwXfSc3KQr2KcLIVrHkafw

 

You Don’t Know Us Negroes by Zora Neale Hurston review – fearless and dazzling essays

The pioneering African American writer’s nonfiction pieces have a power, depth and courage that still resonate more than 60 years after her death. This was in the ‘Guardian’:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/27/you-dont-know-us-negroes-by-zora-neale-hurston-review-fearless-and-dazzling-essays?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’

The lit mag of the moment, founded by two women in their 20s, isn’t afraid to say what’s on its mind. From the ‘Times’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/26/style/the-drift-magazine.html?referringSource=articleShare