Dear White People Is Hilarious, Real, and Necessary
Pilot Viruet | Vice
“All of these characters are honest and multi-dimensional, tasked with navigating the gap between how they see themselves and how others see them, while constantly code-switching throughout the day. They’re also fully aware of their contradictions in a specific way central to our culture: admitting to secretly streaming The Cosby Show, raging against Apple’s slave labor while scrolling through an iPhone. Dear White People is very much about our culture—it's not a show made with white people’s comfort in mind, nor should it be—which is what makes it so remarkable and affecting.”
Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press, a Century Later
Rafia Zakaria | The Guardian
“The publishing business that the two set up in their drawing room and which would eventually take up their dining room, then much of their lives, was supposed to be an answer to so much. It was a physically engrossing activity to ease Virginia’s crippling anxiety, a business that could potentially free the couple from the whims of publishers and even a social outlet through which their diverse literary friendships could be monetized.”
Why Lorde Is a Great Dancer
Aimee Cliff | The Fader
“Lorde isn’t trying to dance like Beyoncé and failing; she’s dancing like Lorde. From ‘Rhythm Nation’ to ‘...Baby One More Time,’ so much of Western Top 40 pop (and particularly pop made by women) has centered on pristine choreography. What Lorde does with her body is more freeform and spontaneous, and it speaks an entirely different expressive language.”