NewMexiKen has finished with last week’s New Yorker and three items that are online merit your consideration.
Anthony Lane writes about the second week of the Olympics in Letter from Beijing. It’s a superb piece, especially as a counterweight to the TV coverage. Strongly recommended.
Ryan Lizza writes about politics in Colorado and the new Democratic party in The Code Of The West. Insightful.
And Janet Frame’s 1954 short story Gorse Is Not People is as sad a piece of short fiction as you’d ever care to read.