I will follow Emily wherever she goes: Paris, Rome, the edge of sanity, etc. Come join me on @vulture.com where I'm recapping season five! My season premiere recap: www.vulture.com/article/emil...

Profiled Trackstar, your favorite artist’s favorite game show, for the @nytimes.com! As the prophet Addison Rae would say: put your headphones on 🎧 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/a...

Oui (sì): I will be returning to recap EMILY IN PARIS (ROME) for @vulture.com. If you have treated yourself to the series' signature between-scene lobotomies & need to get caught up, I recapped my recaps in this week's edition of my newsletter for you!! retroreport.substack.com/p/searching-...

"Tincher, a white woman in her mid-50s who [is] 5’ 4”, insists she was at speaking distance from the agent & said she did nothing to 'impede' their actions. 'Pretty soon they were throwing me on the ground & handcuffing me & putting me in their unmarked truck.'" www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/

“This is just what the world sounds like now. This is how everything has chosen to speak. Mixed metaphors and empty sincerity. Impersonal and overwrought. We are unearthing the echo of loneliness… We are saying the words that mean meaning.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

This week on THE RETRO REPORT: it’s all about the power of GOSSIP 💋! retroreport.substack.com/p/gossip-is-...

"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

"...how simple the culture has made it for someone with nothing but themselves on their mind to hurt someone they think they might benefit from hurting" defector.com/the-conserva...

impeccable and harrowing, by @kerryhowley.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...

My debut novel is available for preorder!!!! In RETRO, an out-of-work actress gets a job as a tour guide for an ultra-luxury time travel company—only to discover her trips to the past could upend her present. Get your ticket to ride: June 23, 2026 💫 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788779...

Industry heads our time is coming!! youtu.be/lzxakBHCO-U?...

“Bobby probably doesn’t remember the millions of people who were paralyzed or killed by polio before the vaccine was available. My dad… does remember. Recently, I asked him what it was like when he got the vaccine. He said that it felt like freedom.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This week on THE RETRO REPORT: Come reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with me during the most poignant time of the year! retroreport.substack.com/p/looking-at...

"The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon. The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

"It sounds hyperbolic, but it’s true: In a world where shared experiences are becoming rarer and rarer, the cinema — as both a place and a practice — remains one of the last bastions of our common humanity." www.vulture.com/article/the-...

This week on THE RETRO REPORT we must ask ourselves: what *do* people do all day? I make the case for offices as the strangest places around, ft. Retro recs to support my theory! retroreport.substack.com/p/no-place-i...

Perfect @winterjessica.bsky.social piece on the “crisis” of modern men, the protagonists of reality apparently!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Get over to the Retro Report to talk about EMBARRASSING BOYFRIENDS in literature and in life, ft. My personal nemesis: Nino Sarratore 👿 retroreport.substack.com/p/embarrassi...

My newsletter this week is all about what I’m calling the VISION/POWER gap: when an artist has taste but not clout! Come see what all the fuss is about and subscribe to THE RETRO REPORT :) retroreport.substack.com/p/how-many-a...

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

An all-timer. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

It’s the time of the season for HAUNTING AND BEING HAUNTED by the art that never was! This week’s Retro Report is all about the art that got away. Come yearn with me! retroreport.substack.com/p/haunted-by...

THRILLING NEWS: I STARTED A NEWSLETTER! It is called THE RETRO REPORT. Come and get the super-specific, mood-based recommendations for what to read, watch, listen to, meditate on, and obsess over you've been yearning for!!!!!! open.substack.com/pub/retrorep...

very funny to read this in the Washington Post which was, until quite recently, in the business of setting up singles. clearly the people yearn for Date Lab! www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

"The person-based relational constellation that once transmitted skill, mentorship, and mutual obligation, however imperfect, has been replaced by a digital loop: workers feeding prompts into the same systems that eventually gatekeep, surveil & smoothly replace them." www.thecut.com/article/job-...

REMEMBER: WE NOT BREAK NEWS. WE POUND NEWS LIKE BONGOS UNTIL NEWS BREAK ITSELF. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aaa...

just in time for spooky season: a fantastic horror story by @annasilman.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/how-th...

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By @petridishes.bsky.social who has actually never said anything to or about anyone and never will, I’m sure of it 🫡 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"One translation of Aaaaughhhh is 'There’s a difference between not dying and being alive.' A summary of Gyyyyyuaaack might be 'Things can grow so corrupted or damaged that it’s better not to have them anymore.'” Great @xwaldie.bsky.social on modern zombiemania: www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

*snap-snap* WEDNESDAY on @netflix.com is back and so are my @vulture.com recaps! The season premiere: www.vulture.com/article/wedn...

"It takes a whole life to learn to leave it – the seeming mistake or incompletion, the absolutely ordinary word." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Six months of congestion pricing in NYC has produced “perhaps the fastest ever environmental improvement from any policy in US history,” @us.theguardian.com’s Oliver Milman reports. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“The Alligator is on the side of the slave catcher & overseer against the black underclass; why not the ICE agent & concentration camp guard against the immigrant, the dissident, the stripped-of-citizenship? The threat is the same: you will be eaten up and disappear.” defector.com/why-do-fasci...

The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

ofc there is a "cognitive cost" to outsourcing the work of your brain to chatGPT!! thank you @chaykak.bsky.social for this chilling report on what happens AI users' minds: “you lose your identity, you lose the authenticity. You lose confidence in your writing.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

"And other places have to learn from this — being afraid all the time and just constantly making transactional moves. How long can you survive like this? What is even the point of being alive if you’re just gonna continue managing rot?" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"No one like Mamdani has ever won an election where as many as a million people voted... A new city was born in this election: a much younger progressive bloc that flexed its muscle like never before." nymag.com/intelligence...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

End of an era 😭 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Sally Rooney: "[Palestine Action's] methods do involve property sabotage, which is, obviously, illegal. But if killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

excited to be very annoying about this time.com/7295195/ai-c...

As Jersey law requires I WILL be seeing this opening weekend but I do think it’s hilarious to end the trailer for the Nebraska movie with “Born to Run,” a song that, quite famously, is from a different album youtu.be/oQXdM3J33No?...

Got inspired by the NYC mayoral race and wrote a new @mcsweeneys.net for you! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ive...

We are so back! The @petridishes.bsky.social @theatlantic.com debut is HERE 🇺🇸 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

the @51st.news report on what to expect from this weekend’s military parade in DC is 10/10 51st.news/dc-military-...

"...some going so far as to dirty themselves with what might seem to an eye that has not benefited from a 6-week Patriotic Abduction training course at a strip-mall karate studio to be actual food stains, paint chips, & other honestly earned detritus of a busy day’s work." bsky.app/profile/mcsw...

Profiled Natasha Lyonne (@natashalyonne.bsky.social) for the June cover of Marie Claire! We got into: life & death; AI and IP; Blue Origin & cosmetic surgery; Poker Face & Russian Doll. “...at this age or stage: Who is it for? Whose public approval, exactly?" www.marieclaire.com/culture/nata...

great essay by @dansinker.com on "the moment we're in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore." (h/t @rusty.todayintabs.com) dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...