The new film “Coastal Elites” is a series of monologues written by Paul Rudnick, one of which features Bette Midler as a retired New York schoolteacher who’s educated, funny, possibly insane, and in police custody for snatching a MAGA hat off a man in a coffee shop. That’s not much of a stretch for Midler. Plus, Jill Lepore describes how a pandemic ends, and N. K. Jemisin talks about how the virulent racism of H. P. Lovecraft, a pioneer of horror writing, shaped his influential fiction.
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