Notes on this week’s issue:
1. GOAT’s Roe Ethridge photo “Football and Lavender” very
fine.
2. David Denby’s “The sound of tobacco and paper burning
while someone takes a long drag on a cigarette is given the same emotional
weight as, say, the view of the Japanese countryside from the air,” in his
capsule review of Hayao Miyazaki’s The
Wind Rises - excellent.
3. Lizzie Widdicombe’s Talk story “Table Talk,” recording
views of various customers at Café Glechik, a Ukrainian restaurant, on Russia’s
Crimean invasion - superb.
4. Dana Goodyear’s “Long Story Short” on Lydia Davis,
particularly part showing how Davis used e-mail message to create story - delightful.
5. André Aciman’s wonderful “Are You Listening?” brings page alive with tender memories of his deaf mother (“her unhindered capacity to let intimacy happen at a glance with everyone”).
5. André Aciman’s wonderful “Are You Listening?” brings page alive with tender memories of his deaf mother (“her unhindered capacity to let intimacy happen at a glance with everyone”).
6. So many great, surreal quotations embedded in Tad
Friend’s brilliant “Heavy Weather,” profile of movie director Darren Aronofsky,
e.g., Aronofsky telling the visual effects folks at I.L.M., “Samyaza’s three
arms in the back are doing nothing – we need a whole other layer of digi-double
people flying out like knee-high grass from a lawnmower as he throws and
crushes.” Piece is rich, variegated mosaic of quotation and description.
Favorite line: “A musk of cigarettes and resentment filled the air.”
This week’s Pick of the Issue: Tad Friend’s
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