FYI #123
And the Ground Was Sometimes Moving (2025) by Camille Laddawan
NASA’s Artemis II mission
New season at Phoenix Central Park
Miriam Toews and Octavia Bright, via London Review Bookshop
Celine Nguyen - Nurturing Your Mind in Public, via Dialectic
The women who sing lullabies for the dying, via Oakland Review of Books
Why Translate Homer Again? Daniel Mendelsohn on his new Odyssey, via Shakespeare and Company
Puppet designer James Ortiz played Rocky in ‘Project Hail Mary’
Emma Straub Owns an Original 1990 New Kids on the Block Fanny Pack, via LitHub… And I do see it as part of my larger project as, like, a human, which is to eradicate snobbery. I have no patience for snobs of any kind, really. Like, I’m just not interested. I feel that way about books. I feel about music. Just full stop. It’s one of my core beliefs that snobs suck. And it’s probably not even that sneaky. But I do think that the people who need to know, need to know.
Why we have bones: Untangling structure in the novel, by Gretchen Shirm
"Governments have never used cricket as nakedly as they do now", Samanth Subramanian and journalist Osman Samiuddin on the Equator podcast
By avoiding means testing, the government is giving handouts to the rich, by Robert Breunig, via the Conversation
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Opioid Crisis, criminal career longevity and why access is overrated, via The Louis Theroux podcast
Celtic Waves: Riding the monster waves of Ireland, story by Sean Murphy, via Foreign Correspondent (ABC TV)
10 Vibrant Indigenous Art Centres To Shop Online, via The Design Files
An art historian's guide to media literacy, via Cyber Celibate