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Incredible Thai restaurant in western Ireland

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Do these people know nothing of oscars history? Gerwig will get her first best director award 20 years from now for her second or third worst movie, a biopic of Hillary Clinton

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In this essay, I won’t.

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@MeghanMcCain weird you had so many words last week

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The teen who egged the fascist is a twin peaks the return fan

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I’m so tired! Every time I open up a magazine to read some criticism, I gotta deep throat theory and hear about Karl Marx. 😵‍💫

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@cgduckworth It'll be called Big Women

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@jdgtranen very excited to hear the many ways they choose to pronounce "churro"

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Over on bluesky, a refuge for all the daughters of the witches you didn't burn, someone told my boyfriend he should be boiled alive for suggesting that people should try to moderate their use of air conditioners

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@AriBrostoff you should run a straightforward, one-paragraph obit like you're the local paper and he was the town florist for sixty years

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I love chess's strategic conceit, which is that the king is an infirm dipshit, wandering in circles

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@AlexanderQuon I take no pleasure in my prophecies

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Imagine if Emile Zola had been like "Je n'accuse pas, words are so powerful, what even is morality or truth? Anyway best of luck to Dreyfus, my heart breaks for him and also for the French military"

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in another life, i once got to help bell hooks resolve a problem with the IRS, and when i called to tell her that she owed nothing (IRS mistake of course), she said "good news comes on the wind"

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"serial dater" or, as it is sometimes known, "dater"

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I wrote about TV queers

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They should think about giving staff writer jobs to people who didn't believe in the Iraq War

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@tylercoates I said get, like win. More gotcha journalism from the Hollywood machine I see

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3 years

that new yorker profile reads like a snob laughing at the temerity of a poor person trying to succeed

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It's actually quite simple: good writing is good, and bad writing is bad. Good writing about good writing is good, as is good writing about bad writing. But! Bad writing about good writing is bad. And—this is important—bad writing about bad writing is also bad

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I wrote about Aftersun and losing a parent

Present Imperfect | Daniel Drake

Aftersun opens with a home movie, a daughter filming her father. Sophie (Frankie Corio) has just turned eleven. Calum (Paul Mescal), who will turn

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No clearer sign that it's a good time to invest in Chicago than walking negative indicator Matt Yglesias

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Quarantine is like living in a sitcom, everything just happens in my apartment

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My wonderful mom passed away on Saturday. She was a lifelong reader and a generous Vermonter, so we are asking for donations in her honor to the Brandon Free Public Library, a small-town library she took us to every week, and sometimes every day, when we were little.

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The University of California has invested in a Blackstone real estate scheme that essentially requires the rents of properties in their portfolio to go up 12 percent every year

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Really excited for this space to sit vacant for a year until finally a place called STUDY BUDDIES that sells $30 lunchables opens for 7 weeks, at which point they knock the whole building down and put up a 14-story glass building that halts construction when it's 90% done

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The Astor Place Starbucks closed for good last night. The SB signage is gone from this 4k-foot space, which they'd been in since March '95. Management told @Joy_of_photos that "the landlords jacked up the rent so astronomically high that even corporate Starbucks couldn't pay it."

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“‘Crumps,’ as he refers to himself, brings the same critical eye to studying the downtown scene in his Substack columns that he does to his day job: copyediting World Bank reports.”

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Personally, I think Women Talking should have won Best Sound

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@BrandyLJensen I simply hate this article

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Good idea, Vincent Gallo, let us all remember Roger Ebert's absolute bodying of your terrible film

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Months in the making, this beautiful essay about Sinéad by the former Twitter philosopher known as Fuck Theory was supposed to be a celebration--I'd secretly hoped she'd read it and send us a note or put out her next album. I wish it hadn't become a eulogy

Incomparable | FT

Nothing Compares, the documentary about Sinéad O’Connor directed by Kathryn Ferguson and released last year, opens with her 1992 appearance at a tribute

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We brought the Didion-NYRB corpus out from the paywall, if you'd like to spend an evening with her withering assessments of 9/11 patriots, Bob Woodward, the Unabomber, the Clintons, Woody Allen, &c.

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In November 2002, Didion gave the inaugural lecture in the New York Public Library’s Robert B. Silvers lecture series, where she talked about the sentimentalization of September 11.

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Great, however, to see Brooklyn's dirty little secret (embarrassing museum) out in the open

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Eve Babitz RIP

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@jonathanchait You didn't hesitate or hold off before new reporting moved your Bayesian priors. Why all the caution now?

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if i worked at the new yorker, i'd just throw a third "L" into the back of "travellled" or "cancellling" and see if anyone ever noticed

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April, famously, will be kind to us

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I wrote about Russian Doll and ethical television for the New York Review Daily, and not a moment too soon. Please give it a read!

'Russian Doll' and the New Ethical Television | Daniel Drake

Russian Doll is less a satire of louche New Yorkers than it is a fable. The roundelay in which Nadia is trapped is an allegory for the compulsions and diminishing returns of addiction, the sense that...

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I'll play: if they use ChatGPT then they aren't learning how to write

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@rachelmillman i love when The Right Take is also The Take That Makes Everyone Mad

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for $90 a year you can subscribe to the NYRB, which is like subscribing to dozens of substacks at once, but they're edited and also not written by peacocking fatheads who stormed out of their cushy staff jobs in a huff

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This really is one of the greatest line readings

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the way she says "a milkshake" is just *chefs kiss*...nothing better

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The trailer for a trailer phenomenon is insane and must be stopped

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@kathbarbadoro Pretty amazing how the Brown alumni kept interviewing other Brown alumni and then wrote an article that was like "weird I know a lot of people from Brown so I put them in my article"

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I'm sorry everyone

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Do these people know nothing of oscars history? Gerwig will get her first best director award 20 years from now for her second or third worst movie, a biopic of Hillary Clinton

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I got to interview @dlseuss , and she was a great correspondent: “My poems are grounded in that crumbling osmotic space between wilderness and failure. The very scent of it activates my imagination.”

The Oversoul Speaking to the Undercarriage | Diane Seuss

“The danger of memory is going / to it for respite,” Diane Seuss writes in her poem “Weeds,” from the Review’s June 23, 2022, issue. This bracing advice

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Let me tell you about Cats

The Slog Comes in on Little Cat Feet | Daniel Drake

It is important to remember that the conceit of Cats, the era-spanning musical adapted into a film this winter, is that all the characters are cats—singing cats, dancing cats, fat cats, skinny cats,...

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I didn’t think the Brooklyn Museum could possibly have a worse exhibit than 2016’s Blue: Here's Some Art from Our Collection That Features the Color Blue, but here we are

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I fulfilled my destiny and wrote about Paul Simon

Paul Simon: Fathers, Sons, Troubled Water | Daniel Drake

Unlike silly songs for children by, say, Raffi, or maudlin songs for parents like Dylan’s “Forever Young” or Cat Stevens’s “Father and Son”—two ballads eager to preserve their singers’ sons in...

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All the news we see fit to print

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@BaileyTrela Tobi!

Criticism in Public: An interview with Tobi Haslett

“I’m always coming back to the perhaps too-basic notion that every object, every movement within culture, every molecule of collective life, is shot through with violent antagonisms.”

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very funny when a music writer has no taste because it's like, other than a willingness to say things like "a wash of synths," what exactly are you bringing to the table

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@GraceSpelman college choir singing a song called "come here for your fruit pulp" in a very solemn manner in a very solemn space—i had to get up and leave because i was in the front row and everyone singing could see me in tears

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@Nicole_Cliffe Told an expensive gym in San Francisco that I was moving to the Bay Area for a job at Google so I could get a free day pass to shower and relax while I waited for my friends to get off work

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@nkulw In the ac thread, there were no fewer than four people punctuating their posts with backslash-sarcasm-meta comments /men be mansplaining news at 11

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@jenneccentric @bocxtop @mirmirkz @mayaisfiya @UberEats I recommend not ordering a single cup of coffee to be delivered to your door by an underpaid stranger

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If Oprah had just selected a humble NYRB Classic, we wouldn't be in this mess

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I'll be earnest: as a pell grant recipient in a low-paying industry who spent many, many years in new york skipping meals or having dinner off the dollar menu at mcdonald's, this loan forgiveness is incredible

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"Since it occupied the Strip in 1967, Israel has transformed Gaza from a territory politically and economically integrated with Israel and the West Bank into an isolated enclave, from a functional economy to a dysfunctional one, from a productive society to an impoverished one."

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Sara Roy on the economic history of Gaza

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@Nicole_Cliffe any opportunity to share this, my greatest yet sloppiest halloween costume

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the author and his dear mother

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love not having a dog in the fight, 1) because then i have no stake in the fight, but more importantly 2) because dogfighting is wrong

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Cover Good

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Out of an abundance of caution, the NYPD should work from home at this time

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This is pure David Brooks-caliber sociology nonsense. He doesn't engage with a single real person or set of facts in the thread. Just a total fantasy that amounts to a just-so story about the decadent left

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"beanie" is no good for the hat it describes, ugly word, unevocative

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getting the fall 2020 catalog together

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@BrandyLJensen I listened to an interview with a professional bridge player once, and, asked why he'd decided to go pro, he said "So on 9/11..."

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@__seab you might say that "projecting meaning" is the literal and metaphorical definition of cinema

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"Miyazaki suggests that humanity’s alienation from nature is older and deeper than capitalism, even intrinsic to what it means to be human. For him, problems of labor and the environment are always contiguous." @LucyJakub is brilliant on Miyazaki

Love's Work | Lucy Jakub

When my sister and I were kids we used to listen for the resonant horn of New Jersey Transit and run out to meet my dad coming up the block in the

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Wild how the problem with some of you is that you are straight, but the problem with the rest of you is that you are gay

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every single one of those you don't have to read freud tweets is like "old men are trying to tell you to read freud but you don't need to listen to them, in fact you should supplant them and make your word law"

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What if instead of a spreadsheet, you wrote a longer piece, an essay, let's say, in which the "facts" of authors' biographies were placed alongside their work and into historical context. You could evaluate the work and the person, some kind of "re-view" of their art and life

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@Nicole_Cliffe Nothing like a long phone call with my mom to discover how greasy my face is

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at least once every issue of the Review we have to make sure anal-ysis doesn't break over two lines

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tape me to a wall and sell me for $120,000

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can i get a hell yeah for my sister, who is now a doctor of math? she's so smart she's not even on stupid twitter

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Once upon a time, you had to pay a small amount of money to "purchase" a collection of writing, printed on paper. A portion of this money, in aggregate, could be divided up among the writers, thus remunerating them for their labor

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"In hindsight people can sketch some kind of narrative" oh you mean history?

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Of course in hindsight people can sketch together some kind of narrative about the US being in the throes of wrenching crisis that somehow came to a head in 2016, but come on, there’s no equivalent to the Depression here. That stuff is mostly post hoc rationalization

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@Edwin_Aponte_Jr Sorry about your hairline

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shortly after discovering there were two babies

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Francis Ford Coppola shutting down production on Megalopolis to teach his granddaughter about shallots

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@Nicole_Cliffe oh! Sophomore year of hs, I was a closeted gay, she was a closeted lesbian, we saw Shrek and I invited like 4 friends

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gun-owners manifest their own anxieties, they force us to live in the world they fearfully imagine themselves to be in

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from the cutting room floor, the Paul Lynde line i didn't use Pete Marshall: Paul, how many men on a hockey team? Lynde: About half

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@JasMoneyRecords go for a midwest lefty liberal arts college, like oberlin or kenyon

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[to the tune of Zombie] Laundry, laundry, laundry-y-y

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Let's see, what are some Brooklyn Museum exhibits from the last few years, there was "costumes from The Crown and The Queen's Gambit," "Kaws," "the color blue," and let's not forget the permanent installation "YO/OY" sculpture

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my wish for 2023 is that we can have menus again

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I wrote about the eclipse, omens, portents, auguries, Nabokov, and mud season

In the Path of Totality | Andrew Katzenstein, Willa Glickman, Daniel Drake, Lucy Jakub

I. Andrew Katzenstein in Mason, TexasII. Willa Glickman in Rochester, New YorkIII. Daniel Drake in Warren, VermontIV. Lucy Jakub in the Rangeley Lakes,

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opinions are like assholes: mine is the best

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@BrandyLJensen Reminds me of the time some guy used my number to spend hundreds of dollars on Go-Karts, a speedboat rental, and various incidentals at Wisconsin Dells

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so let me get this straight, the new york times is going after the new yorker because one of its writers doesn't always dot his o's?

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This smile really says "I am your woman, she is your wife"

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I was dissuaded from my proposed introduction, which was, in full, “Joyce Carol Oates needs no introduction,” but this week I got to interview @JoyceCarolOates who, need I remind you, needs no introduction.

‘See What You Can Make of It’ | Joyce Carol Oates

In our February 10, 2022, issue, Joyce Carol Oates reviewed Empty Wardrobes, the first English-language translation of the midcentury Portuguese writer

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I used to read The AV Club every week, it was a champion of art films, a great venue for alternative cultural criticism, and it's where I learned the words "didactic" and "solipsistic." It's a disgrace what G/O did to them