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A Lonely Adolescent Summer, Set to “Bad Moon Rising”
Any time is a good time to grow up if you find what you love, but there was something special about coming to self-consciousness in the…
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A Diehard Drinker Accidentally Quits
The cultural discourse around avoiding alcohol never convinced me—and why sober up when the world is burning? Then life intervened. Source…
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“Toy Story 5” Won’t Leave Kids to Their Own Devices
Ingeniously, Stanton and Harris weaponize a foundational conceit of the “Toy Story” universe—that inanimate objects can have freedom of…
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The Dance Legend Lucinda Childs’s “Momentary Reprise”
The police-drama template gets a vigorous update in the Saudi director Haifaa Al Mansour’s twisty mystery “Unidentified.” A teen-age…
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“The Invite” Is a Witty Relationship Comedy That Could Be Wilder
Wilde’s previous feature, the dystopian thriller “Don’t Worry Darling” (2022), was a through-the-looking-glass nightmare of…
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Are Dads Getting Better?
Saxbe reports on research showing that dads generally have lower testosterone than non-dads; the more time they spend with their kids, the…
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J. D. Vance’s Contemptuous Conversion Memoir
Thiel donated a record-setting fifteen million dollars to Vance’s successful 2022 bid for Ohio senator, but his largesse on this score…
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“Widow’s Bay” Sets a High Bar for Horror Comedy
A decade ago, back when Twitter was still Twitter, and writerly types gathered there to amuse one another, a Los Angeles-based…
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A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike
The novel’s main two conflicts center on the university. First, there is an ongoing existential battle being waged between the university…
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Books to Bring on Vacation
There’s a lot to look forward to on this summer’s reading list: Rachel Aviv on the mother-daughter dynamic, the return of Colson…
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Has Tech Robbed Us of Our Sensory Lives?
There’s a genre of TikTok video that you might call analogcore. Not quite the calming, whispered monologues of A.S.M.R., this content…
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Stephen Spielberg’s Reckless, Audacious “Disclosure Day”
Margaret is entirely aware of what she’s doing when she pulls off these empathetic maneuvers, but she remains oblivious to how she herself…
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How to Canoe to the World Cup in New Jersey
With fresh supplies, we set off again, marching in our canoe hat past warehouses, over overpasses, on tiny sidewalks. Cars gave us narrow…
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David Hockney’s Hidden Depths
Known for his colorful, light-filled portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes, many of them depicting friends or lovers, Hockney, who died…
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How Scott McTominay Led Scotland Back to the World Cup
That analysis was, if anything, too kind to Fred. (A fellow United fan once remarked to me that watching the Brazilian attempt to control…
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Early-Twenties Lament
“They say modern love’s a cruel endeavor,” Olivia Rodrigo sings on “u + me = <3,” a lush, desperate new song from her third album, “You…
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How Tina Fey Wrote the Most Realistic—and Optimistic—Marriage on TV
Long before the term heteropessimism was coined, Tina Fey made the sentiment a staple of her comedy on “30 Rock.” Her…
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Fight Night at the White House
White and Trump have been aligned for quite some time. In his interview with Remnick, White called the President “one of my very, very…
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When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?
In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often…
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Gustavo Dudamel and James Conlon Exit L.A.
When Dudamel was announced as Salonen’s successor at the L.A. Phil, in 2007, he was only twenty-six, and aglow with a celebrity that is…
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What Marcel Is Selling
The menu, from the French chef Marie-Aude Rose, who also runs La Mercerie, is old-fashioned in the au-courant way. A preprandial…
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Laverne Cox Wants to “Rehumanize Everybody”
It was really the cut of the suits and the silhouette. He’s known for this hourglass silhouette, and I think because I’m trans and I have…
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How Did American Christianity End Up Like This?
Fosdick’s sermon on that fateful spring day had been advertised in the city’s newspapers: “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” From the…
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Kate Millett Disappears
Millett said that she created “Terminal Piece” because “it could not be written.” The failure of language again: Is it because language is…