Placeholders
Kenneth DillonPlaceholders is a newsletter about books, politics, and culture by Kenneth Dillon. Published biweeklyish.
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Saints of Doubt
The stage before a great performance by Max Richter and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble on Saturday, May 3. (All photos mine.)
Last weekend I covered a music festival for the first time. It was fun, challenging, and exhausting. It...
Lose the Plot
(Vox)
Sean Baker’s Anora won basically everything at last night’s Academy Awards. This was surprising, though not because of the quality of the film (excellent) or its provocative subject—it’s a rags-to-riches story about a stripper from B...
The Challenge of Writing (and Reading) About Atrocity
Edvard Munch, Death Struggle. 1915. (SMK)
I read the civilian death toll. A description of how the perpetrators were dressed, which passports were in their pockets, what weapons they used. Then I read the unambiguous text of an internatio...
Making a Mayor
The title card from a 1928 educational film about stargazing in NYC. (PDR)
This morning I reread a story by Cynthia Ozick about an attorney named Ruth Puttermesser.
Poor Puttermesser. First her boyfriend walks out on her (“His gripe was...
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