Friday, July 21, 2017

Reading archive 2017-07-21

Trump team seeks to control, block Mueller’s Russia investigation

Disabled and disdained: In rural America, some towns are divided between those who work and those who don’t

Lana Del Rey Is Worried About America: On ‘Lust for Life’ the usually navel-gazing singer can’t ignore what’s going on around her. Her fourth album finds her national anthems taking a decidedly dark turn about the world around her. - "Del Rey’s music captures — better than that of almost any of her contemporaries — a unique frustration faced by her generation: the difficulty of making something new and great in the wake of a digitally accessible past (so much culture, so revered). But her music also asserts the eternal necessity of a now — the need for young people to eke out some kind of movement to call their own, if only to assert the fact that they are alive in this moment in time."

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