#adamgopnik — Public Fediverse posts

An #article from 2012 on the #NewYorker. #Messianic movements, #allegory vs #politics, and the true, down-to-earth #meaning of #Revelation. (Plus, a lot of clumsy, heavy-handed metaphors.) 🙄
https://archive.is/DoV5k

#Bible #christianity #ElainePagels #AdamGopnik #Apocalypse #gnosticism

Best article I’ve read on Biden

Joe Biden Leaves the Stage

“An analogue that immediately comes to mind for Biden at this dramatic moment in his and the nation’s life is John of Gaunt, in “Richard II,” the deeply patriotic, yet superannuated and out-of-touch grand old man who, on his deathbed, delivers a matchlessly beautiful speech in praise of the England he has known and of the values he fears are passing.”

#Biden #Trump #Shakespeare #kinglear #macbeth #richardii #AdamGopnik @NewYorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/joe-biden-leaves-the-stage

New #substack! I go on about #NickCave & memory/loss, + new ep. w/ #PriscillaGilman, links by/re #AdamGopnik #MiltonGlaser #GarthGreenwell #PhilipRoth #SammyHarkham #GENESIS & #EmilyDickinson + plumbing adventures & more, so GO READ Https://vmspod.substack.com/p/cave-man?sd=pf

“#Movies are an accumulation of mundane tasks that support improbable fables. Closing [#WesleyanUniversity’s #JeanineBasinger and #SamWasson’s “Hollywood: The Oral History”], one wonders if American #entertainment has reached its end as a collection of myths and legends suitable to a secular society…The glow and the gleam of #Hollywood are fading. The collected testimony of witnesses is inevitably a kind of group elegy for something loved and gone.” —#AdamGopnik https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/what-hollywoods-ultimate-oral-history-reveals