The Friday wrap-up

10/18/24

• This piece—about a new book that gives female photographers and their techniques their proper due—intrigues. This great picture is by Shirin Neshat.

• Everything is Fine this week is a mix of heavy and light—we’re mourning Jenn’s cat, but we’re talking about what we’re watching and buying too— among other stuff. Please tune in!

• This rundown of reader faves from the Times’s popular Modern Love column is a poignant walk down memory lane. I especially enjoyed the anecdotes from readers about why certain stories resonated with them.

• I’m low-key obsessed with the Garden of Allah, a constellation of L.A. bungalows inhabited by movie stars and transplanted New York writers working in Hollywood that was once called “The Algonquin roundtable gone west and childish.” This piece, from a book about Dorothy Parker’s L.A. years, is a satisfying dive into a that scene.