Writing with Fire, a new documentary film about women journalists in India. The filmmakers discuss it here, on PBS: 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_h3A0-zUjvw&feature=share

 

A COUPLE MORNINGS AGO WHILE I HELD THE SIGN, a Black woman looking stylish and cool in gray boots and gray jeans and a gray puffy coat and a gray winter beanie came by and pulled her mask with rhinestones on it down and said ‘Fight the Power, Baby!’

 

Mel Brooks at 95 is coming out with a memoir. Here’s a Q&A with him about it:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/mel-brooks-writes-it-all-down

 

‘The Times’ picks its top 100 books of 2021.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/22/books/notable-books.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

Gish Jen on storytelling across cultures. From ‘The New Yorker’:

https://apple.news/AXXlHF4j0QI-Nm9VONOcW_Q

In Angela Merkel: Portraits 1991—2021, a new book arriving from Taschen this winter, photographer Herlinde Koelbl gathers three decades’ worth of portraits of the German chancellor, tracing the extraordinary arc of her political career:   https://apple.news/ANOkhHEqCSEWpjb2AI1KHrw

Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the 1619 Project, Keeps Her Eyes on the Prize

‘I am still, in many ways, this girl from nowhere who had to prove myself in every space I’ve ever been in,’ she says. ‘And I always feel like I have to fight and defend myself, even when I’m at a point when I don’t have anything else to prove.’ This is in the new ‘Vanity Fair’:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/nikole-hannah-jones-keeps-her-eyes-on-the-prize