#sundayread for August 5, 2018
By Wade Kwon
Photo: Malcolm Slaney (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for August 5, 2018:
- I found trudging through “Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev to be unfulfilling. But cross another classic off the list.
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/2nco5G4 - Sociologist Robin DiAngelo Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
By Katy Waldman @xwaldie - The most famous psychology study of all time, the Stanford Prison Experiment, was a sham.
By @BenZBlum - Flashback: Wade’s 101: Birmingham’s 2020 Summer Olympics
- Police responded to his 911 call for help. He died. What happened to Tony Timpa?
By @CaryAspinwall - Where have you gone, @DaleMurphy3?
By Wright Thompson - Flashback: Y’all Connect: Connecting with Lauri Rottmayer
- How @EricRoberts Went Big, Crashed Hard and Became the Hardest-Working Man in Hollywood
By @SamKashner - Stanley Kubrick: director, chess freak
By Jeremy Bernstein - Flashback: Is “17776” the future of storytelling?
- HGTV Is a Never-ending Fantasy Loop. Look Deeper, and It Gets Pretty Ugly.
By Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific - The mania for cryptocurrency/Bitcoin could build something much more important than wealth.
By @StevenBJohnson
(via @aarif_aarif) - How One Syrian, Bassel Khartabil, Fought to the Death for a Free Internet
By @AliceYSu - A short history of the blues, which has no beginning, no ending
By John Jeremiah Sullivan
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More #sundayread:
- All tweets for August 5 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
