i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

‘Admire the images, swoon at the performances—still, there’s a constant, artifice-exploding whisper: this is real, this is real, this is real.’ An exceptional essay by @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social

i am enormously honored to have written an essay for the new @criterion.bsky.social edition of Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon." enjoy—and go get yourself a copy! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Jason Bateman excels as the Everyman, reeking of ennui and buried impulses, in the new HBO comic whodunnit “DTF St. Louis,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Earlier this week, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Thanks to @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Colm Tóibín, and Jay O. Sanders for an enlightening evening, and to everyone who joined us! (Photo by Nile Scott)

When all the thinking is outsourced what's left, asks @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social. Others say that LLMs just help with the brainstorming or the drafting or the revising but when you strip all those things away, we also need to ask what's left. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

Bari Weiss is presenting her plans to the CBS staff today. Weiss quite famously live tweeted a contentious internal meeting at the Times in 2020. I wonder if she thinks her employees are entitled to do the same thing now?

“The existence of so many real and unvarnished images of [Alex] Pretti’s killing posed a problem that Trump’s underlings have tried to patch up with words,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

I wrote a TNY Take about Jane Kramer’s The Founding Cadre, a reported piece from 1970 in which Kramer embedded with a radical feminist CR group for nearly a year— which ended up getting published using pseudonyms, bc the editors found the topic too alarming: www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

Trump and his minions are fine with killing people in plain public view; how many will they kill or maim in secret? Our friend @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social asks the pertinent question. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

i wrote about watching it, about evidence, about witness. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

Donald Trump and his spokespeople use press conferences “to set forth their distorted vision of the future—and, maybe more subtly, to let slip their estimation of the public,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

by @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social

Even before Alex Pretti's name was widely known, his public killing was made exponentially more public by its rapid dissemination over social media and the news. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

Our ability to participate in witnessing, to corroborate each other’s commonsense, to assure one another that, no, you are not crazy, they did just “fucking kill that guy,” is a threat to the Administration’s assumption of total power… www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

i wrote about watching it, about evidence, about witness. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

for next week's @newyorker.com i wrote about the art of the Trump press conference www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

funniest running bit on twitter is "gentle r kikuo johnson new yorker cover drives idw and tpot types insane trying to interpret it"

TV finales can feel like saying goodbye to a close friend but, should they really mean so much to us? @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social, Naomi Fry, & Alexandra Schwartz discuss the concept in this fascinating moment from ‘Critics at Large’: harkaudio.com/art-great-tv...

this week's edition of Vinson Cunningham's Quiet Storm includes tunes by Nas, Labi Siffre, Sevyn Streeter, Peter Gabriel, Geese, and many others—plus a brief meditation on the increasingly endangered communal function of radio. vcunningham.substack.com/p/be-yourself

this week's edition of Vinson Cunningham's Quiet Storm includes tunes by Nas, Labi Siffre, Sevyn Streeter, Peter Gabriel, Geese, and many others—plus a brief meditation on the increasingly endangered communal function of radio. vcunningham.substack.com/p/be-yourself

‘“You don’t get to choose what you write about,” she said. The truth of the statement shivered through me; I’ve been thinking about it for months now, less as a commentary on the writing life than a brutal fact of how it feels to live in history.’ By Vinson Cunningham:

Beautiful and honest. A Christmas present for the soul.

‘Pulpit Blues’, a new story by Vinson Cunningham — inspired by the art of Lorna Simpson on.ft.com/47tkryX

A beautiful essay by @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social: Birth Pangs www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

For reading with your pie and tea/bourbon by the fire this evening: @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social 's What Kind of New World Is Being Born? www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

This from @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social @newyorker.com is brilliant and necessary. I'm grateful for it. What Kind of New World Is Being Born? www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

a Very Special Holiday Edition of my Quiet Storm—two hours of tunes to help the weekend glide by: vcunningham.substack.com/p/our-house

a Very Special Holiday Edition of my Quiet Storm—two hours of tunes to help the weekend glide by: vcunningham.substack.com/p/our-house

all evidence of a great hope that, by embodying those details, you might permanently save them.” -Vinson Cunningham

“That’s another unexpected thing about grief, how it coaxes you into an attempt at becoming the other, taking on their tics and savoring how they used to talk, fishing a ring out of their jewelry box and stuffing it onto your finger—

alert for e-reading enthusiasts: the kindle version of my novel Great Expectations costs $1.99 right now—i don't know how much longer that's gonna last! www.amazon.com/Great-Expect...

hello, people of bluesky. here begins my attempt to post among you. initial offering: new edition of Vinson Cunningham's Quiet Storm—i share playlists & quotes from my reading—featuring tunes by Mary J. Blige, Leon Thomas, Ganavya, Brian Eno, Chicago, & more. vcunningham.substack.com/p/if-you-lea...

Looking like LeBron might make his season debut tonight. Did you know he’s old as hell? Do you know who is even older? Me. I am so old. Which is why I got to write the essay for his 78th SLAM cover.

Sweet News: Ich habe den Humboldt-Preis für Forschung zu Antisemitismus und Judentum bekommen 🙏🙏🙏 Und das Buch ist auf dem Weg! 🤗 ⬇️

phrenology confirms this, so many keepers have clear "baseball player face" ... these are all 800 OPS guys you can just tell

The weekly Reading, Watching post.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-maga-m...

hello, people of bluesky. here begins my attempt to post among you. initial offering: new edition of Vinson Cunningham's Quiet Storm—i share playlists & quotes from my reading—featuring tunes by Mary J. Blige, Leon Thomas, Ganavya, Brian Eno, Chicago, & more. vcunningham.substack.com/p/if-you-lea...

Reading about the indictments of the MLB pitchers on throwing pitches & thinking about something @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social kind of said on an episode of Critics at Large re: gambling: Our fandoms all get monetized to the max *by others,* and then our love for something becomes just...money.