author of GREAT EXPECTATIONS, a debut novel now in paperback. staff writer and critic, @newyorker. co-host, Critics at Large.
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First sentence, sure, not the others: understanding is academic, quasi-scientific—in criticism, faux-objective. Criticism is also literary, subjective, prophetic, political, contentious; self-questioning is part of it, but the impersonal "maybe" is as reductive as thumbs up/down.
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Reviewed the new Debs biography nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books…
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I don't think it should be about anything else. I have seen and liked many documentaries that provide much more than information. This is my consistent irritation about the discourse around the film. If I dislike it, why does it mean that I have somehow failed to understand it?
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i don't agree with vinson about the movie (i liked it) but i agree that "it's actually about 'truth' and documentaries" is a pretty weak defense, and not really even very accurate
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12:30 PM on a Thursday with the possibility of the newly crowned champs being rushed off for a Hawks game... nasty work
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Reese: “I think I rushed a lot of my shots…I’ll be better.” @Winsidr
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The Billy Evans dick-measuring contest is over. @vcunningham won. “California brown homesteader dick, horse & buggy dick. A dick that says I live in the house I built. Joan Didion dick. Santa Ana Winds dick. Donner Party dick. Tan speckled kettlebell ass.”
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My gripes with Matt Yglesias. unpopularfront.news/p/throug…
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in which i express my dissent re: "You Can See Everything"
“It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.” newyorker.com/podcast/critic…
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For @Harpers, I gaze into the fires of our collective chatbot madness, and the varieties of visionary encounter now afoot: spirit communion via LLM... the heralding of slop and its generation as mediumship, channeling... the stuff of revelation itself harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
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for this week's @NewYorker, i wrote about the new 60 Minutes. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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The Bari Weiss Effect on “60 Minutes” | @vcunningham
CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different.
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wrote about the American Language newyorker.com/culture/on-tel…
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"Just as our national-defense establishment’s alphabet soup of lethal agencies gets little pushback for its engagements with jargon—its often opaque talk of “threat levels” and “terrorist cells” and the many “bright lines” at whose thresholds diplomacy must end and violence begin—football fans have come to tolerate, and even crave, a surprisingly high level of nerdy, insidery talk." - @vcunningham
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In N.F.L. commentary, expertise is celebrated, even craved, by the masses. newyorker.com/culture/on-tel…
