‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ and Eco-Anxiety Therapy: Roundup

This weekend, listen to a compilation of narrated articles from The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote them.

There is something simple, surprising Bell of W. Kamau He also does “We Need to Talk About Cosby” in the Showtime documentary series. While Bell interviews subjects about the comedian and actor accused of multiple rapes, he shows them scenes of Bill Cosby’s performances on a tablet.

The interviewees – entertainers, experts, women who accused Cosby of sexual harassment – hold a small screen in their laps. The device allows them to turn their faces down, brighten up at warm childhood memories, or record disgust at the now-terrifying punchlines.

It’s a small gesture, but it’s important. You have to keep in mind what you know about the man Bill Cosby. And you have to literally hold on to what you know about Bill Cosby’s work.

“We Need to Talk About Cosby” keeps Cosby’s successes and mistakes close and acknowledges that there may be an insoluble mismatch between the two.

It would hit Alina Black in the snack aisle of Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her skin shiver.

Something as simple as a nut. They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers, dreaming of leaving her house and traveling to a landfill where she would stay for the rest of her life and the lives of her children.

37-year-old Black longed to leave less of a mark on the world, he truly longed for it. But she also had a diaper baby, a full-time job, and a 5-year-old who wanted junk food. These clashing forces were slowly approaching him like a pair of chins.

Eco-anxiety, a concept introduced by young activists, has entered a mainstream vocabulary. And professional organizations are rushing to catch up, researching approaches to treating anxiety that are both existential and, as many would argue, rational.

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Written and narrated Eric Kim

“Most of my instincts as a cook can be attributed to shows that aired in the late 1990s and early years,” food writer Eric Kim writes in this Magazine article. “We were the Food Network Babies, a generation who came home from school to watch cooking shows before mealtime.”

Now when he watches those shows, they remind him of how slow cooking shows are, the antithesis of the flashy antics of today’s YouTube videos, or the fast-paced fantasy of TikTok.

For those moments when you want to slow down, Eric recommends Madame Gabillet’s chicken, inspired by cookbook author Melissa d’Arabian. “I first made it after watching d’Arabian’s big ‘Food Network Star’ win years ago, but that was the day I replaced chicken breast with trout, lemon with lime, and a combination of white wine and chicken stock. All the white wines I realized were the power of this pan sauce, ”Eric explained.“In the kitchen, he set me free.”

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Written and voiced by Lauren Mechling

Alex Levy, a yoga teacher and DJ based in Sacramento, is a member of several group chats, including one with hundreds of friends on Burning Man. But after a while, he said, the text chains “started to dwindle and disappear.”

Group chats, like all chats, are not meant to go on forever. Scroll to the bottom of your messages and you’ll likely find a long-forgotten conversation — a scheduling chain for a friend’s March 2020 surprise party, or a large group full of people dropping off your social map when the virtual happy hour stops the fun. There was no drama; Things went, as it were, all of a sudden.

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Written by Andy Newman, Nate Schweber and Chelsia Rose Marcius | Narrated by Andy Newman

To the homeless lining up in front of the Holy Apostles Soup in Manhattan, Martial Simon was a familiar figure: often inconsistent, often angry about something.

According to the confession made by the police at 9:37 on the morning of January 15, Michelle pushed Alyssa Go, a 40-year-old stranger, in front of a train at the Times Square subway station. He died instantly.

Simon, 61, a former taxi driver and parking lot manager who immigrated from Haiti at the age of 13 and started showing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 30s, will likely spend the rest of his life in lockdown.

But his decades in New York, where his lawyer estimates he has been hospitalized at least 20 times, demonstrates a broken care system for some of the most seriously ill members of society; a great post where another person with a psychiatric history fails every few years. Mental health experts and homeless advocates say hospitalization is a gruesome act of violence.

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Times-reported articles by Tally Abecassis, Parin Behrooz, Anna Diamond, Sarah Diamond, Jack D’Isidoro, Aaron Esposito, Dan Ferrell, Elena Hecht, Adrienne Hurst, Elisheba Ittoop, Emma Kehlbeck, Marion Lozano, Tanya Pérez, Krish Seenivasan has been made. , Margaret H. Willison, Kate Winslett, John Woo and Tiana Young. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Ryan Wegner, Julia Simon and Desiree Ibekwe.