The RRJ recommends you read Chuck Klosterman’s meditation on “Mad Men” protagonist Don Draper, “A New Don,” written for the now defunct Grantland. The best thing about Chuck Klosterman’s take on the ever-changing ethos of Don Draper from AMC’s “Mad Men” is that you don’t even have to watch the show to understand his point. Published… Continue reading Chuck Klosterman’s Analysis of a Finished TV Show for a Defunct Website
Category: RRJ Recommends
The Award-Winning Canadian Documentary, Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr
The RRJ recommends that you watch Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr released in 2015, and directed by Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard. I noticed kudos given to the Canadian military a few weeks ago for being the first in the world to develop child soldier guidelines. Cmdr. Rory McLay was quoted in national news stories explaining that… Continue reading The Award-Winning Canadian Documentary, Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr
Two Long Takes From Jimmy Breslin
The RRJ recommends you read “A Death In Emergency Room One” and “A Part of Cop’s Past Lies Dead” by the late Jimmy Breslin. When the infamous columnist Jimmy Breslin died last week at the age of 88, his piece on Clifton Pollard, the man who dug John F. Kennedy’s grave, was absolutely everywhere, which is… Continue reading Two Long Takes From Jimmy Breslin
Kathryn Schulz’s “When Things Go Missing”
The RRJ recommends you read “When Things Go Missing” by Kathryn Schulz, from the Feb. 13, 2017 issue of The New Yorker. At Toronto’s York Mills subway station a few weeks ago, waiting for the bus driver to come back from wherever bus drivers go when they’re not glowering at you, I took the latest issue of… Continue reading Kathryn Schulz’s “When Things Go Missing”
Alison Motluk’s “Uncommon Ancestry”
The best health stories are about empathy, about seeing clearly that all that separates you, the reader, from the story’s subject is an accident or genetics. Alison Motluk’s “Uncommon Ancestry” in Hazlitt is gripping not only because of the inherent drama of its premise—that there are many existing cases where fertility doctors impregnated patients with their… Continue reading Alison Motluk’s “Uncommon Ancestry”