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Algorithmic America
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Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US âextraordinaryâ artist visas
Work permits increasingly being awarded on basis of online reach, favouring content creators
https://www.ft.com/content/8816fcec-4148-4cda-be7f-fc59d5bcbf59
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Reupping my 2025 Trump Kennedy Center Honors bingo card for no particular reason
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omg what an honor! um i'd like to thank the academy, james frey, my parents for ruining my personality (just kidding mom and dad it's not your fault!)
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The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025
Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.âs masturbatory debut noâŠ
https://lithub.com/the-most-scathing-book-reviews-of-2025/
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Not Zoltan Maga at the white nationalist soiree!
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A âtakeâ on (or ode to) Mary McCarthy in last weekâs mag
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Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthyâs âOne Touch of Natureâ
A reader trusts the authorâs voice instinctively, charmed by its opaline assessments and zinging aperçus. Still, one can quibble.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/takes/katy-waldman-on-mary-mccarthys-one-touch-of-nature
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This was my Trump Kennedy Center Honors bingo card (12/6)
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The New Yorker
28 days ago
Donld Trumpâs takeover of the Kennedy Center has led to a year of embarrassment and chaos for the once venerable art institution.
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How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism
The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/how-the-kennedy-center-has-been-transformed-by-trumpism
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Wrote about Trumpâs Kennedy Center Honors
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism
The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/how-the-kennedy-center-has-been-transformed-by-trumpism
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The New Yorker
29 days ago
The 48th Kennedy Center Honors was âa tacky, supersized love letter to the centerâs self-installed chairman, President Donald Trump,â
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www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism
The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/how-the-kennedy-center-has-been-transformed-by-trumpism
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Happy Solvej Balle day! (Every day the eighteenth)
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Happy Valentines Day - OutKast (HD)
YouTube video by Mark Cee
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAWwdzNL6c
about 2 months ago
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The New Yorker
about 2 months ago
Most stories in the time-loop genre build to a moment of escape. âOn the Calculation of Volumeâ imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/on-the-calculation-of-volume-solvej-balle-book-review
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Solvej Balleâs Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. âOn the Calculation of Volumeâ imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/on-the-calculation-of-volume-solvej-balle-book-review
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Is something going on with lettuce in NY being rotten?
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The New Yorker
2 months ago
âAccording to the spokespeople of grind culture, the choice is clear: your individuality can make money for you or it can make money for somebody else,â Katy Waldman writes.
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How Corporate Feminism Went from âLove Meâ to âBuy Meâ
A decade ago, Sheryl Sandbergâs âLean Inâ aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/how-corporate-feminism-went-from-love-me-to-buy-me?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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The New Yorker
3 months ago
Todayâs self-help books for working women abandon the pretense that they have anything to do with feminism, or even work. Instead, everything is content.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/how-corporate-feminism-went-from-love-me-to-buy-me
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Wrote about the state of corporate feminist self-help!
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How Corporate Feminism Went from âLove Meâ to âBuy Meâ
A decade ago, Sheryl Sandbergâs âLean Inâ aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/how-corporate-feminism-went-from-love-me-to-buy-me
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For the fall books issue of
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, I reviewed Ian McEwan's excellent new novel, which features city-drowning floods, "the famous group Radiohead," and a metric ton of adultery.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
His new novel, âWhat We Can Know,â imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that theyâve missed out on.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/what-we-can-know-ian-mcewan-book-review
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The New Yorker
4 months ago
âWhat We Can Know,â Ian McEwanâs 18th novel, takes place in the 22nd century, after a nuclear disaster. âMuch of the novelâs charm lies in its re-creation of our era as seen from the future,â Katy Waldman writes.
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Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
His new novel, âWhat We Can Know,â imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that theyâve missed out on.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/what-we-can-know-ian-mcewan-book-review?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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4 months ago
Seeing ice cream cones during their spawning runs really takes your breath away. Theyâll only do this once in their entire lives.
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Monday version of me here to re-up this post for all of your Monday selves!
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4 months ago
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I reviewed Helen Oyeyemiâs new new novel, in which a character divides herself by seven â one identity for each day of the week (Should we all try this?)
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Helen Oyeyemiâs Novel of Cognitive Dissonance
Kinga, the protagonist of âA New New Me,â has an odd affliction: there are seven of her.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/25/a-new-new-me-helen-oyeyemi-book-review
5 months ago
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While Iâm self-promoting, this piece is in dialogue with an earlier piece about MAGA aesthetics and how Trump is a LLM regurgitating signifiers without understanding them
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The New Yorker
5 months ago
With media such as â28 Years Laterâ and âThe Last of Us,â 2025 has been a bacchanalia of zombies. Katy Waldman writes about our cultural fixation on the walking dead.
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Our Age of Zombie Culture
Zombies are the least eloquent monster. But they have a lot to say about us.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/our-age-of-zombie-culture?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Zombies are reactionary babies, tell your friends
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Our Age of Zombie Culture
Zombies are the least eloquent monster. But they have a lot to say about us.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/our-age-of-zombie-culture
5 months ago
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Really enjoyed spending time with the film Sorry Baby and with its singular creator and star Eva Victor
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
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How Eva Victor Reimagined the Trauma Plot
In her new film, the actor, writer, and director charts the nonlinear course of a young womanâs recovery from assault.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/how-eva-victor-reimagined-the-trauma-plot
6 months ago
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I snuck a few of my "Anora" gripes into a piece about "Materialists" and the rise of the anti-Cinderella story
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7 months ago
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The New Yorker
7 months ago
Does Prince Charming still exist? A spate of media scrutinizing the one-percentâincluding âMaterialistsâ and âAnoraââattests to the difficulty of romanticizing wealth and love.
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The Rise of the Anti-Cinderella Story
A pair of recent films, Celine Songâs âMaterialistsâ and Sean Bakerâs âAnora,â turn the fairy tale on its head, with mixed results.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-rise-of-the-anti-cinderella-story?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Subbing in for the inimitable Naomi Fry on this weekâs critics column, I wrote about Hollywoodâs new anti-Cinderella plot
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The Rise of the Anti-Cinderella Story
A pair of recent films, Celine Songâs âMaterialistsâ and Sean Bakerâs âAnora,â turn the fairy tale on its head, with mixed results.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-rise-of-the-anti-cinderella-story
7 months ago
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The New Yorker
7 months ago
âI have wrestled with a Frey-like dread through the writing of this reviewâIâm afraid that Iâll describe his book and no one will believe me.â Read
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James Freyâs New Cancelled-Guy Sex Novel Is as Bad as It Sounds
With a status-obsessed comeback book, the author of the fabricated memoir âA Million Little Piecesâ attempts to rebrand.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/james-freys-new-cancelled-guy-sex-novel-is-as-bad-as-it-sounds?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Reviewed James Freyâs new book somehow
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James Freyâs New Cancelled-Guy Sex Novel Is as Bad as It Sounds
With a status-obsessed comeback book, the author of the fabricated memoir âA Million Little Piecesâ attempts to rebrand.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/james-freys-new-cancelled-guy-sex-novel-is-as-bad-as-it-sounds
7 months ago
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Love Marvel, hate Marvel, all I know is that they put the New Yorker in their closing credit sequence alongside a David Brooks joke that deserves its own Oscar
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Is âThunderbolts*â Marvelâs Attempt to Salvage the Superhero Genre?
The film succeeds in part by flipping the franchiseâs standard script: the main characters arenât embarrassed because theyâre superheroes; theyâre embarrassed because theyâre not.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/is-thunderbolts-marvels-attempt-to-salvage-the-superhero-genre
7 months ago
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The New Yorker
8 months ago
âTwist,â by Colum McCann, centers around the cables that relay computer data around the world, and what happens when a cable off the Ghanaian coast is severed. But the book doesnât establish the human stakes of the repair, Katy Waldman writes.
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Colum McCannâs Limp Novel of Digital Life
In âTwist,â the characterization is listless and the internet is just a series of tubes.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/colum-mccanns-limp-novel-of-digital-life?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Raw Story
8 months ago
In an interview with Slate's Mary Harris, the New Yorker's Katy Waldman stated that nothing is going well at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since Donald Trump took over the venerable Washington D.C. institution.
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'Everything is worse' at Kennedy Center as the 'Trump anti-Midas touch' takes hold: expert
In an interview with Slate's Mary Harris, the New Yorker's Katy Waldman stated that nothing is going well at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since Donald Trump took over the venerable Washington D.C. institution.Following up on earlier reports that crowd-pleasing ââ and ticket-selling...
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The New Yorker
8 months ago
Donald Trump loves posting A.I. images of himself. On a new episode of The Political Scene podcast, the staff writer
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talks about how she sees these often bizarre representations as the âstatements of intentâ of a budding authoritarian. Listen here.
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Decoding Donald Trumpâs Love of A.I. Imagery
The President loves posting A.I. images of himself. The staff writer Katy Waldman sees these often bizarre representations as the âstatements of intentâ of a budding authoritarian.
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/decoding-donald-trumps-love-of-ai-imagery?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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The New Yorker
9 months ago
Donald Trump and A.I.-generated imagery are well matched, Katie Waldman writes. âIt makes sense that a man who yearns for a reality untroubled by other humans would be drawn to art that is untouched by anything human.â
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Trump Is the Emperor of A.I. Slop
It makes sense that a man who yearns for a reality untroubled by other humans would be drawn to art that is untouched by anything human.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/trump-is-the-emperor-of-ai-slop?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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I subbed in on âCritics Notebookâ this week and wrote about Trumpâs AI aesthetic!
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Trump Is the Emperor of A.I. Slop
It makes sense that a man who yearns for a reality untroubled by other humans would be drawn to art that is untouched by anything human.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/trump-is-the-emperor-of-ai-slop
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Things fall apart; the Kennedy center cannot hold.
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The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center
Can the fifty-four-year-old arts hub weather the next four years?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-trump-show-comes-to-the-kennedy-center
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The New Yorker
about 1 year ago
A well-known romantasy author is being sued for copyright infringement. But the genreâs reliance on tropes makes proving plot theft tricky. Romantasy novels âexpress the longing to be unique, but they pour that desire into imitative forms,â Katy Waldman writes.
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Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writerâs Story?
Tracy Wolff, the author of the âCraveâ series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasyâs reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/did-a-best-selling-romantasy-novelist-steal-another-writers-story?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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M. C. Mah
12 months ago
This is really good, and goes beyond the plagiarism angle. I shouldnât give away what happens when authors working in an iterative genre featuring protagonists of revelatory specialness stare into the abyss of Kindle Direct Publishing.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writerâs Story?
Tracy Wolff, the author of the âCraveâ series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasyâs reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/did-a-best-selling-romantasy-novelist-steal-another-writers-story
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Caroline Eisenmann
about 1 year ago
this excellent feature from
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www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writerâs Story?
Tracy Wolff, the author of the âCraveâ series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasyâs reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/did-a-best-selling-romantasy-novelist-steal-another-writers-story
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Hi! Some-time lurker, first time poster. For this weekâs
@newyorker.com
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www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writerâs Story?
Tracy Wolff, the author of the âCraveâ series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasyâs reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/did-a-best-selling-romantasy-novelist-steal-another-writers-story
about 1 year ago
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