FYI #112
Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, via the WEF
Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era, report by United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health…. For decades, the global policy and science communities have warned of an escalating “water crisis” and called for accelerated action to avert it. Those warnings were not wrong, but they are now incomplete. The language of crisis—suggesting a temporary emergency followed by a return to normal through mitigation efforts—no longer captures what is happening in many parts of the world. (executive summary)
Grateful for the work of Dame Marie Bashir (1930 - 2026) and Rob Hirst (1955 - 2026)
‘You should always do pretty work..’.. advice shared by Mandy Patinkin on the podcast he does with his wife, Kathryn Grody, and their son, Gideon Grody-Patinkin. It came from his father’s electrician.
Dance Takes on the set of Hamnet .. from director Chloe Zhao.. ‘Some of you have asked me what to do with all the emotions and how my cast and crew release them on set and the answer is: Dance Takes! We believe emotion is energy in motion. So to discharge, we move, we breathe, we make sound and we dance, so we are never too scared to feel our rawest emotions and we don’t store them in our bodies.’
Narrative Amid Trauma: Emily LaBarge in conversation, via the Shakespeare and Company Interview. Looking forward to reading LaBarge’s book, Dog Days.
One Long Year Later: It's Not Over, and We Haven't Surrendered, by Rebecca Solnit
Francesca Wade & Lara Pawson on Gertrude Stein, via the London Review Bookshop. I loved Wade’s book on Stein.
I Need a Critic: One-Hundredth-Episode Edition, via the New Yorker’s Critics at Large
The politics of withdrawal, via New Creative Era, with Joshua Citarella and Yancey Strickler
“It’s a Playground!” – How Two Graphic Designers Live and Work in a 45sqm/484sqft Home, via Never Too Small.. spaces with interesting bookshelves always catch my eye
Wonderful memories… A blow for Oxford St as Palace shuts the Chauvel cinema, via the SMH
This year’s tripleJ Hottest 100
The 98th Academy Awards nominations | 2026… Oscar Noms ‘26! Five Big Takeaways and Industry Narratives, via The Town with Matthew Belloni
2026 Woollahra Libraries Writer in Residence: Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A Striking Pre-Fab Home In The World's Widest Canyon, via The Design Files
Inside the Sentimental Value house with production designer Jørgen Stangebye Larsen, via House & Garden