The week ender

THE WEEKENDER is a special collaboration between OZY Tribe members near and far to provide delicious recommendations for your valuable weekend time. Next week, we'd love to feature yours too. Are you watching, listening to or reading something amazing? Share your suggestions with us here at OZY!

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WHAT TO READ

White Fragility — Starting the Conversation.

Author Robin DiAngelo’s book deftly and compassionately deconstructs not just the history of racism but the reasons why it’s still so difficult for White people to unpack their relationship with it or even to talk about it. 

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The Man Without Qualities — Forgotten? Not by Us.

Austrian author Robert Musil’s unfinished three-volume novel is considered by those in the know to be one of the most important ever penned, but even many well-read classics buffs have never heard of it. You won’t regret putting in the time with protagonist Ulrich, a mathematician, and his existential crisis.

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Eugene Robinson
Reader Extraordinaire

Bricktop — American Icon.

This is one of the great café culture autobiographies, chronicling the life and times of Ada “Bricktop” Smith, an African-American woman who famously ran a Parisian saloon during the roaring ‘20s. The book is nonstop anecdotes about her extraordinary life, which includes rubbing shoulders with F. Scott Fitzgerald, boxer Jack Johnson and the Prince of Wales.

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Fiona Zublin
History Buff

WHAT TO LISTEN TO

‘The Goal’ — A Taste From the Beyond.

The video for this Leonard Cohen song — which is filled with the late songwriter’s signature wordy melancholy — is just a precursor to the real excitement that’ll be released on Nov. 22. That would be a new album of Cohen’s music, Thanks for the Dance, which Cohen’s son Adam finished based on his father’s sketched out material.

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Maroosha Muzaffar
Cohen Fanatic

Norman F***ing Rockwell — Sweary Elegance.

Lana Del Rey’s new album is a colossal pop achievement, complex and contemplative without sacrificing quality. Clear your afternoon to take this one in. Some critics have compared Del Rey’s album to the great records of Joni Mitchell and Carole King, so hold onto your copy because the next generation is going to think you’re cool for having it in 30 years.

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Viviane Feldman
All the Rey

WHAT TO WATCH

Wu Tang: An American Saga — Nothin’ to F*** With.

It was inevitable that the greatest hip-hop group of all time (do not @ us) would get its own superhero origin story, and now that’s happened via this new scripted miniseries airing on Hulu. While real-life Wu Tangers were involved in creating the series, it’s not a sanitized version of how the group came to be — instead it’s a dramatic warts-and-all telling of how a group of scrappy small-timers became hip-hop legends. 

The show is part crime drama and part musical biopic, and it’s a great artifact for Wu Tang fans. However, if you’re new to the group, you might want to start — well, with their music, but also with the recent Showtime documentary about them, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men. 

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Demetra Jones
36 Styles of Danger

AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T DO THIS:

Ruffle the witness’s feathers. Police in Utrecht went viral this week after they put a small bird in a prison cell. The animal was perched on its owner’s shoulder when the person was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting, and police said they didn’t have a suitable cage for the “sneaky witness.” The jailbird has since been released.

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