EDITOR’S LETTER
Aug 01, 2022
2 minutes
There is something reassuring about Barack Obama’s summer listening list. First, it’s a list. We all like lists. They bring order and a focal point for an argument. The list arrives annually in high summer, a marker of time, like a putative hosepipe ban but with better choruses.
The list also always feels real. It’s probably carefully curated, but it never feels confected. In the past when Obama settled on Phoebe
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