FYI #46
Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread, Tim Winton, via the Guardian. Winton has a new novel out, Juice.
A new season of Take 5 with Zan Rowe, via the ABC TV. Guests include Neil Finn, Claudia Karvan, and Bernard Fanning
ACO 2024: Meet Guitarist Sean Shibe. Shibe is performing with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in November, Scotland Unbound.
Ta-Nehisi Coates - “The Message” & Understanding the Humiliation of Oppression | The Daily Show, in conversation with Jon Stewart. Coates has a new book out.
Tim Walz and His Rescue Dog, Scout | via WeWalkDogs
Always curious to read about the work being done in various disciplines by recipients of MacArthur Fellowships.
How Australia should deal with Trump, by Michael Fullilove, executive director of the Lowy Institute.
Es Devlin’s large-scale choral installation celebrates London’s displaced population, via Wallpaper Magazine
Reality Bites with Sarah Ben Romdane, via passerby magazine
Podcast listening highlights this week:
Matt Yglesias on the election, Substack success and the great unbundling, on Channels with Peter Kafka
Autumn sartorial tips, musician Ana Lua Caiano and small talk, via Konfekt Korner
The Infernal Machine, Steven Johnson on 99% Invisible, talk about his book, The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
James Carville on Ramping Up the Harris Ground Game and Defeating Trump, on Inside the Hive, with Brian Stelter
Hanif Abdurraqib on The Write Question with Lauren Korn