It’s Sunday afternoon — your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations:
“Allison Williams on Season Two of Girls, Improv-ing With Lena Dunham, and Being Marnie Michaels—the New Marcia Brady†by Bruce Handy (Vanity Fair): The HBO star has a theory about why middle-aged viewers feel more sympathy toward Girls’ characters than people her own age.
“Good Will Hunting: An Oral History†by Janelle Nanos (Boston Magazine): Go ahead and travel back in time to a world in which no one had ever heard of Ben Affleck.
“George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year†by Joel Lovell (New York Times Magazine): A look at the literary heavyweight and his “eye for the absurd and dehumanizing parameters of our current culture†(per Junot DÃaz).
“Django, the N-Word, and How We Talk About Race in 2013†by Rembert Browne (Grantland): Why 2013 will be the year of uncomfortable conversations about race and “the idea of ownership.â€
For more in-depth weekend readings, visit our friends at Longreads.