Minnesota Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT Bryan MacKenzie is out this week. Fortunately I know a guy. PUNT By Nick RouMelCounterpunt Emeritus A “Catch-22” has come to be understood as a paradoxical situation, one in which neither of two choices is either possible, or desirable. It comes from the eponymous 1961 novel by Joseph Heller, set in World War II. The protagonist, John Yossarian, pilots a B-25 bomber in Europe. After watching too many friends die, he wants to quit. He cannot wait to fly enough missions so that he can be reassigned. But every time he gets close to being finished, his megalomaniac commander keeps retroactively
Certain literary protagonists leap off the page and stay with you long after you’ve finished the book. This short quiz tests your knowledge of five 20th-century novels.
For her stage debut in “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” the “White Lotus” actress is joining forces with Christopher Abbott. “We’re both unafraid to be ugly and weird and strange,” he said.