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The lack of a diversity in GIRLS launched a thousand thinkpieces. One thing I always thought was behind the resentment a certain kind of woman of colour writer had for Dunham: the freedom she had to lovingly savage her own milieu, to poke fun without the burden of representation.
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this week in THE CRITICS newsletter @NYMag, some oscars counterprogramming: i spoke to @JDavidsonNYC about the met's new production of a five-hour wagner opera. i WILL be going
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“The world is dumber, and we all know it,” Lane Brown writes. It’s not just that children have been bombing their standardized tests or that more than a quarter of U.S. adults now read at the lowest proficiency level. It’s also that in nearly all aspects of life, we’re opting for routines, entertainment, and entire belief systems that ask less and less of our brains. For our Cover Story, Brown writes about our recent cognitive diminishment — and proposes a counter-intuitive theory of what’s causing it: nymag.visitlink.me/VEMvwP
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“I hate all these stories about Condé Nast,” New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells writer Madeline Leung Coleman. “It implies that everybody was an idiot who wanted to fly the Concorde and eat caviar.’ vulture.com/article/susan-or…
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From me, on my employer (along with many other media companies) licensing content to OpenAI vox.com/technology/352849/op…
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I’ve been disgusted to see my friend Frances lose her coaching contract for our local tennis courts to a business-brained leech whose growing fiefdom already includes three public courts across the city. Thankful to @cliomiso for taking on this story curbed.com/article/tennis-co…
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What happens when a beloved local tennis coach gets replaced by the highest bidder? Something like 'There goes the neighborhood' - @cliomiso reports on the high-stakes drama at the Jackie Robinson courts in Bed-Stuy curbed.com/article/tennis-co…
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In the mag this week, @LaneBrown and I, plus a bunch of other people. came up with the New Rules of Hollywood Stardom. If you like a blurb, that means I wrote it; if you didn't, it was someone else! vulture.com/article/how-to-b…
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I wrote about the sex strike shaking up the Orthodox world -- and why women should never be chained: thecut.com/article/why-ultra…
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"I couldn’t stop thinking about what a strange fit her labor-celebrating, inequality-exposing vision was for MoMA, perhaps the New York museum that feels most like a department store." madeline really nails a perennial art world tension vulture.com/article/latoya-r…
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‘Monuments of Solidarity,’ LaToya Ruby Frazier’s decades-spanning survey at MoMA wants to ‘stand in the gap between working-class and creative-class people.” But her show’s venue makes that impossible. trib.al/lmBGJq9
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WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN: We are excited to announce that we have a tentative agreement with @condenast on our first contract. Our pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ ahead of the #metgala2024 moved the company and our progress at the bargaining table kicked into high gear…
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From April 26 to 29, @columbiaspec took over 100 portraits of student protesters, faculty, and personnel at Columbia: trib.al/70poLMn
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If you want to know why Zadie Smith is two-siding a genocide after 8 months of indefensible bloodshed, Andrea Long Chu nailed it in How Zadie Smith Lost Her Teeth: vulture.com/article/zadie-sm…
Zadie Smith argues that protest slogans are “weapons of mass destruction” in a new pretentious and navel-gazing article and she does it while a literal genocide ravages Gaza. I am sick of ignorant and tone-deaf writers who feel like they can lecture us from their lavish homes.
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Critics Jackson McHenry and Sara Holdren come up with their own theater awards, just in time for Tonys season: the Phonys. Categories include worst mom on Broadway, best stage drugs, and best use of boomer material. trib.al/e4kgJs8
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Even for the @nytimes, this an all-time manipulation of passive voice to describe the NYPD potentially killing a student protester. The “ gunshot had been fired” “the gun fired” “the bullet ended up in the wall.”
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I talked to a few of these students and they don’t seem to know anything about what they’re protesting. Most of them aren’t even aware there’s a new movie about the invention of Pop-Tarts, let alone why they should be opposed to it
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When my great grandmother became the first crossword editor for the New York Times during WWII, she wrote "You can’t think of your troubles while solving a crossword." The @nywarcrimes crossword is wonderfully and correctly not in that tradition! newyorkwarcrimes.com/crosswo…
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NEW from @kbriquelet: Jessica Seinfeld and Bill Ackman both donated thousands to fund pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA, in the lead up to last night's violent attack on the university's Pro-Palestinian encampment. @thedailybeast thedailybeast.com/jessica-se…
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