Seeing is believing.
Please note: We'll be off through the holiday weekend, and will return on Wednesday morning. See you then!
Beijing will impose new security legislation for Hong Kong. It's China's most aggressive move to curtail civil liberties for Hong Kong residents since the city's 1997 handover. 1/23
The man who filmed the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery has now been charged with felony murder 2/23
"When national news diverges from local reality, 'suspicions about whether the epidemic was a hoax will find fertile ground.'" 3/23
If the US had started social distancing one week earlier in March, an estimated 36,000 fewer people would have died. 4/23
A new outbreak model predicts surges in COVID-19 cases in areas that reopened early, including parts of Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas. 5/23
As a way to gauge the safety of reopening, detailed tracking of each US state's COVID-19 testing trends. 6/23
From temperature checkers to crowd minders, a roundup on the new jobs of the reopening economy. 7/23
A helpful overview to how coronavirus vaccines work, and the status of those currently in the pipeline. 8/23
This is what graduation looked like in 2020. 9/23
People with autism and intellectual disabilities living in group homes are suffering under lockdown, with routines disrupted and unable to physically be close to loved ones from the outside. 10/23
Watch: Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) shows you how to cook the traditional Roman dish, cacio e pepe. 11/23
Related: Blixa Bargeld cooks risotto with calamari on German TV. 12/23
Photographer Emma Mowat is collaborating with people during quarantine, sending them disposable cameras to capture life under lockdown. Here's the resulting photo essay. 13/23
"You don't take a selfie in a restaurant mirror when you feel bad about yourself." On missing the particular quality of the restaurant bathroom selfie. 14/23
See also: "I miss bars." 15/23
A century of working out at home, or at least watching people work out, at home. 16/23
Citing demand for streaming content and live events, analysts expect the music industry to double in value by the end of the '20s. 17/23
The pandemic is bringing geo-blocked streaming shows. Laura Marling sold out her first one within days, and has announced another. 18/23
Watch and listen: Here's 1987 in the Hood Internet's project of mixing 50 tracks from a single year into a three-minute song. 19/23
"King Peter's subjects are adherents of the Reichsbürger movement, whose members believe Germany doesn't exist." 20/23
An interview with the hosts of Everything Is Fine, a podcast about aging. 21/23
Images of vintage buildings with unexpected signage, by Jeffrey Czum. 22/23
Song of the week: "Exit" by Auscultation, from their fantastic new album, III. 23/23
And now a brief chat with a new Sustaining Member, Ciara O.
Hi Ciara! Can you tell us what brought you to TMN in the first place? I found the Tournament of Books in 2014 when Roxane Gay either tweeted or retweeted a link to her judgment of Life After Life. I liked her as an author and I loved that book. I followed the link.
I had read Life After Life (and loved it) as well as Eleanor and Park (cried on a bus) and The Dinner (I thought it would be intriguing but I was mainly bored), so I was interested in reading those judgments first. Then I started from the beginning of the bracket just so I had context and then I was hooked. I've been following along each March. I read a few things that year that I'm not sure I would have found otherwise—The People in the Trees and The Good Lord Bird weren't on my radar at all in 2013-2014.
I've usually read two books in the bracket beforehand and after the Tournament I always end up reading the winner and whatever really intrigued me based on the judges' reviews. Fever Dream was a particularly wild winner because once I read Meaghan O'Connell's intense review I was so intrigued that I went out and bought it immediately and read it in 90 minutes, then made my now-husband read it, then made my friends read it and forced them to be in a book club about it. By the time the book club rolled around two months later due to scheduling, everyone was a bit too distant from feverishly reading the book to talk about it, but I still remember reading it with that oddly unnerving dread.
Anyway, thank you for putting on the ToB. I love what it is and what it does. I'm not the commenter type but I love being a voyeur and seeing what everyone loves and hates. I'm semi-prepped for the Tournament of Touraments and I'm interested to see where it goes!
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