What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( Devour pop culture with us: [Subscribe]( now. The Best Stories of This Week [What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For? It is unclear whether each book supplies a portion of the holistic racial puzzle or are intended as revelatory islands in and of themselves.]( By Lauren Michele Jackson [Now Isn’t the Time for More Music-Industry Silence Record labels have known about these issues since long before it became radioactive behavior to stay quiet.]( By Craig Jenkins [Our Brother Kaizen He would be called a murderer and a domestic terrorist. But to us, he was family. Our struggles with systemic racism growing up were the same.]( By The Lucas Bros [The Revolution Will Not Be Branded The platitudinous word soup deployed from various brands has felt even more at odds with reality than usual.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Cops Are Always the Main Characters TV perfected the cop show, metastasized it, and then franchised it into ubiquity. How does that affect the way audiences think about police?]( [How Did #BlackOutTuesday Go So Wrong So Fast? Kehlani, Lil Nas X, and more have criticized the social-media movement.]( [Deep Cover Defies the Standards of Hollywood Stories About Cops The film noir genre has always been good at laying bare the lies at the heart of the American dream.]( By Angelica Jade Bastién [Summertime Sadness Haim returns with an album begging you to sob on the dance floor with it.]( By Hunter Harris [The Best Albums of the Year (So Far) Fetch the Bolt Cutters might end up being the album that resembles 2020 the most.]( By Craig Jenkins [Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Crash-Landed Right When It Was Needed Most It’s the hard reset Fame/The Fame Monster fans have been waiting for.]( By Craig Jenkins [Christo Made Us Feel the Awe-Inspiring Impermanence of Human Achievement Some scoff at these works as mere spectacle. They are spectacle. But that isn’t nothing.]( By Jerry Saltz [Instagram Should Give Everyone Swipe Up The feature is a useful tool for activism that should be available to all users.]( By Madison Malone Kircher [The 50 Best TV Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now Homecoming, Escape at Dannemora, The Americans, and more.]( By Brian Tallerico [The Best Comedy Specials of the Year (So Far) Featuring Marc Maron’s apocalyptic End Times Fun, Leslie Jones’s Time Machine, and Ted Alexandro’s DIY quarantine release.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [12 Documentaries You Should Watch About Racism and Police Brutality in America They are worth watching today and always.]( By Jason Bailey [Insecure’s Jay Ellis Is Convinced That Issa and Lawrence Are Soul Mates “I think they will always be in each other’s lives no matter what happens.”]( By Maria Elena Fernandez [What Critics Said About Do the Right Thing When It Premiered Spike Lee’s 1989 film was called both “a devastating portrait of Black America pushed to the limit” and “a rancid fairy tale.”]( By Rebecca Alter [Why Cops and Soldiers Love the Punisher Understanding the controversial fandom of a violent Marvel antihero.]( By Abraham Riesman [Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story Offers a Careful Study of a Woman Scorned Amanda Peet sinks every one of her teeth into the role of the famous housewife turned murderer.]( By Jen Chaney [Why Hannah Gadsby Structured Her New Special Like a Fugue On this week’s Good One, the comedian talks about her Nanette follow-up and how autism influences her jokes.]( By Jesse David Fox [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read more from Vulture](     [Subscribe to New York]( [Subscribe to New York](   Subscribe for $5/month and get [unlimited digital access]( to New York Magazine, home of the Cut, Vulture, Grub Street, and Intelligencer.     We value your feedback. Send us a note at engage@nymag.com.     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=weekly)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2020, All rights reserved