Poet laureate Simon Armitage publishes elegy for Prince Philip | Poetry | The Guardian.
Google Arts & Culture – Celebrate World Heritage Day by taking a virtual tour of 10 World Heritage Sites
The New York Times – “The history of this strange document can tell job-seekers what works and what doesn’t. In the last decade, I have revised 3,000 résumés while working as a college career adviser. Here is my advice: The strongest will fit on a single page. Exceptions are few. An 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of letter paper fits about 700 words. So be efficient. Recruiters often say they spend six seconds reviewing the average candidate. Are you worth seven? I would lose my mind if all I did was revise résumés, and so I got curious about their history. Want some real advice? Résumés do violence to language. They are poetry, inverted. You must dry the joy from the bones of words; drain the human sauce; leave a labored husk printed on eggshell. Only then can you guilelessly communicate that you were on the dean’s list at your university for five of eight total semesters. And hope it matters…”
The New York Times: “Note the last two words in the title of Heidi Schreck’s hit show, “What the Constitution Means to Me”: This is a highly personal take, not a historical or legal lecture. Yet Schreck succeeds in widening her autobiographical play into a paean for basic fairness: The American Constitution, admired as it is, fails to protect all of us from violence and discrimination. Like the recent captures of “Hamilton” and “American Utopia,” albeit on a much more intimate scale, “What the Constitution Means to Me” (streaming on Amazon) successfully preserves a Broadway experience for the screen. Schreck, who has the amiable presence, storytelling verve and pedagogical chops of an ideal schoolteacher, starts off by recounting how she paid for college with the money she earned as a teenager giving speeches about the Constitution in American Legion halls…”
Please trust me when I say that you will absolutely want to read this: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the James Franco–Anne Hathaway Oscars Debacle [The Ringer]
WHAT: We Spoke to the New Yorker Who Found a Whole Apartment Behind Her Bathroom Mirror[Curbed]
So J Lo and A. Rod ARE over, for real this time. She seems like she’s doing absolutely fine; he’s apparently going through it.[Lainey]
This is a great interview, at the New Yorker: Catherine Zeta-Jones Is Enjoying Herself
Also at the New Yorker, and fascinating: How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?
ALSO at the New Yorker, a delightful interview with Nigella Lawson.
We like her, just as she is: Weighing Bridget Jones’s Diary 20 Years On [Bustle]
At Marie Claire: Why ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ Hits Different in 2021
Entertainment Weekly reports: Romancing the Screen: Could a Bridgerton effect give the romance genre a Hollywood ending?
I feel like I’ve posted about this topic SEVERAL times in the last three or four years and it hasn’t actually quite stuck yet, but I think we’re almost there: A New ‘Denim Cycle’? After a Decade, Jeans Move From Skinny to Loose [NYT]