What I read today - Oct 3

• The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”, The New Yorker
• The Peculiar Poetry of Paris’s Lost and Found, The New Yorker
• What Does the Next Wave of Development Mean for Bushwick Artists?, hyperallergic
• It’s lit! How film finally learned to light black skin, the guardian
• Designer of Papyrus font reacts to Ryan Gosling’s SNL takedown, It's nice that
• Branded in Memory
• This Book is a Planetarium (<-it is! it is!), Kelli Anderson
  her work is the bee's knees and so lovely
• Madagascar Plans to Amend Discriminatory Law That Fuels Statelessness, VOA News