NEWS

I love email briefings. This is especially great as The New York Times was blocked by the Great Firewall while I was living in China. My daily morning digest currently includes:

  • NYT Now Morning Briefing by the New York Times

  • Various news articles from the Washington Post. Democracy dies in the darkness, indeed.

  • Situation Report by Foreign Policy

  • Various news reports on China by Sixth Tone

  • Various articles from The Nation

  • Sporadic non-paywalled reading from The Economist

I also love reading about culture and society in the New York Times, particularly the Modern Love column. 

BOOKS

I am trying to read for fun as much as I can before law school. I'm currently reading Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.

The last five books I read:

  • Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  • The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James

  • Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Pinch (a/k/a Geraldine Harris)

  • The Whisper Man by Alex North

  • The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

My current to-read list is:

  • The Overstory by Richard Powers

  • The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

  • Oracle Year by Charles Soule

  • The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

  • It by Stephen King

FILMS

During my stint as the TA for the History of Popular Culture class, I grew to have a deeper appreciation for film. Here are some films that I particularly enjoy, in no particular order.

  • Avengers (2012), dir. Joss Whedon

  • Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), dir. Anthony and Joe Russo

  • Baby Driver (2017), dir. Edgar Wright

  • Beauty and the Beast (2017), dir. Bill Condon

  • Cloud Atlas (2012), dir. Tom Tykwer and Lilly Wachowski

  • Hero (2002), dir. Zhang Yimou

  • Inception (2010), dir. Christopher Nolan

  • No Country for Old Men (2007), dir. Ethan & Joel Coen

  • Dunkirk (2017), dir. Christopher Nolan

  • The Shining (1980), dir. Stanley Kubrick

  • Inglorious Basterds (2010), dir. Quentin Tarantino

  • Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), dir. Matthew Vaughn

  • Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), dir. George Miller

  • Mean Girls (2004), dir. Mark Waters

  • Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

  • Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

  • To Have and Have Not (1944), dir. Howard Hawks

  • Tropic Thunder (2008), dir. Ben Stiller

  • What We Do in the Shadows (2014), dir. Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement

  • Wonder Woman (2017), dir. Patty Jenkins