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Oct 9, 2025
With her newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift has the number one song, the number one album, and the number one movie in America. She’s the first artist to...
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Sep 15, 2025
I read this article at NYMag—“Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?,” by Charlotte Klein—and I found it sort of annoying. Then a friend...
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Jun 23, 2025
People don’t really understand each other: that’s at least half of what makes stories run at all. Fritz Leiber, who grew up with a traveling Shakespeare troupe, might...
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Jun 10, 2025
Once, many years ago, I was listening to somebody I knew describe why a potential romantic partner was an utterly hopeless prospect. He’d signed his email to her with...
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Mar 24, 2025
This January, while Joe Biden was still president, the Washington Post published a story that revealed that a USAID official, Sonali Korde, had pressured a...
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Mar 20, 2025
A proposition: though “trash art” remains with us, the trash artist is a dying species. Trash art is focus-grouped these days, high-gloss. Trash art is a...
Oct 9, 2025With her newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift has the number one song, the number one album, and the number one movie in America. She’s the first artist to...
Sep 15, 2025I read this article at NYMag—“Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?,” by Charlotte Klein—and I found it sort of annoying. Then a friend...
Jun 23, 2025People don’t really understand each other: that’s at least half of what makes stories run at all. Fritz Leiber, who grew up with a traveling Shakespeare troupe, might...
Jun 10, 2025Once, many years ago, I was listening to somebody I knew describe why a potential romantic partner was an utterly hopeless prospect. He’d signed his email to her with...
Mar 24, 2025This January, while Joe Biden was still president, the Washington Post published a story that revealed that a USAID official, Sonali Korde, had pressured a...