Weekly Roundup (Sep. 19, 2022)

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (Kim Kelly)

Brilliant, vital work from one of our great journalists. Tells the unjustly forgotten saga of Americans' fight for labor. Possibly my book of the year.

Quicksilver (Neal Stephenson)

A hoot, in the way Stephenson generally is. A million ideas a minute pitched at just the right frequency. Or maybe I'm just a nerd.

Headlines

• Apparently the new Marilyn Monroe movie with Ana de Armas has a talking CG fetus.

• Greg Abbott continues his fascist project by weaponizing and displacing migrants.

• A Montana judge has blocked an appalling anti-trans birth certificate law.

• My mother's review of Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt is brilliant.