À la carte (November 24, 2024)

Some books, a show, a podcast, and...have you ever tried listening to Bon Iver while walking around in the fall??!

A book

Last week I turned 36, the same age as Margaret, the “older woman” in Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Intermezzo. Her lover, a 22-year-old chess prodigy named Ivan, doesn’t see her as old. He sees her as beautiful and supple and full in her personhood. It is Margaret who is preoccupied by the age difference. She is at once flattered by Ivan’s attenti…