A Charmed Life Chris Kraus October 22, 2019 The best satire seems to spring from hatred and repugnance: Swift, Juvenal, Martial, Pope… Satire, I suspect, is usually written by powerless people. It is an act of revenge. – Mary McCarthy I’ve always loved Mary McCarthy. She fit the—very tiny, exacting,…

BY Audrey Wollen in Opinion | 09 SEP 19 While some have written that Norman Fucking Rockwell! is about the coming end of America, Del Rey knows that America is already over A BY Audrey Wollen in Opinion | 09 SEP 19 Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, 2019. Courtesy: Polydor/Interscope Where is…

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Sophie Helf. Photo: Tavish Timothy Sophie Helf (@jil_slander) is a computer programmer and writer originally from the Bay Area who currently lives in New York. She is very good at getting lost in Brooklyn. This week, Sophie and I talked milkmaid blouses, Co-Star, and putting Glossier products up…

Brandy Jensen, The Outline’s Power editor, has made a lot of mistakes in her life. Has she learned from them and become a wiser person as a result? Hahaha oh gosh no. But it does leave her uniquely qualified to tell you what not to do — because she’s probably done it. Dear Fuck-Up, I’m 29 and a very…

CONTÉM SPOILERS!TribunaSão da responsabilidade do editor e transmitem a visão do diário sobre assuntos atuais – tanto nacionais como internacionais Phoebe Waller-Bridge se arrisca a nos dizer a verdade sem resolução cômica ou clichês de superação, que ecoa mesmo em quem não teria coragem de…

Overtones Examining the glittering melancholy of Robyn’s music with some help from diehard fans including Carly Rae Jepsen and Perfume Genius September 12, 2018 Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns When Robyn returned this summer, she was met by her adoring fans not as a queen nodding to her subjects, but…

BROOKLYN, NY — Caroline Calloway had come to spill the tea. Those were her words, not anyone else's. Sitting onstage at the Bell House in Brooklyn Friday night, the Instagram influencer made her first major public appearance — and first public statements outside of media interviews — since her…

Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com I’ve always been aware of being an inconsistent personality. Of having a lot of contradictory voices knocking around my head. As a kid, I was ashamed of it. Other people seemed to feel strongly about themselves, to know…

When the 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg first started campaigning for the climate outside Swedish Parliament in the late summer of 2018, her intention was not to travel around the world delivering urgent addresses about climate change to executives, diplomats, and elected officials.…

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Photo: Marcus Cooper “I feel so unstable, fucking hate these people, how they’re making me feel lately,” Charli XCX sings on “Gone,” one of the best singles from her newly released, long-awaited third

The first thing that hit me about Zealandia was the noise. I was a 15-minute drive from the center of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, but instead of the honks of horns or the bustle of passersby, all I could hear was birdsong. It came in every flavor—resonant coos, high-pitched cheeps, and…

On August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it’s worth reading in full. I mean, forget the serious stuff for a moment. The thing begins with an epigram: “We dedicate this to the energy of we — greater than any one of us,…

Credit...Associated Press The New Nativists Newly unearthed documents reveal how an environmental-minded socialite became an ardent nativist whose money helped sow the seeds of the Trump anti-immigration agenda. Credit...Associated Press By Nicholas Kulish and Aug. 14, 2019 She was an heiress…

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To the majority of her fans, 19-year-old Clairo’s rise was the quintessential anyone-can-do-it success story of the viral era. But a vocal minority began to wonder whether it was a more familiar tale than anyone was letting on. What’s real for the young pop star? By • - One day, when Claire Cottrill…

Personal History My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest. July 1, 2019 Illustration by Rebekka Dunlap The piping on the red snowsuit was yellow, and on the green snowsuit it was blue: fire-engine red, sunflower yellow, summer-grass…

By the Book Credit...Jillian Tamaki “A really good middle-grade novel,” says the New Yorker essayist, whose debut collection is “Trick Mirror,” “will supersede a lot of contemporary fiction in terms of economy, lucidity and grace.” What books are on your nightstand? When I like a book, I carry it…

“This can wind up strengthening democracy,” said David Miranda, who is at the center of an intensifying dispute with President Jair Bolsonaro.Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — The votes had been tallied, and the skies of Rio de Janeiro crackled with fireworks as…

In September 2004, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, then 15, tried out for a reality show. She and her parents were at a mall in Houston when they noticed a booth advertising a casting call, and her d

Pete Buttigieg as a senior at Harvard in 2004.Credit...Harvard University THE LONG RUN And why it took him until he was 33 to come out. Pete Buttigieg as a senior at Harvard in 2004.Credit...Harvard University By July 14, 2019 The closet that Pete Buttigieg built for himself in the late 1990s and…

It’s hard to not to have a love/hate relationship with the underground party scene in Taipei. Sure, you’ll meet a lot of strange and interesting people; I can’t deny that it all feels very fun in the moment, on the dance floor. But there are maybe just too many crazy people out there. I’ve gotten a…

Paper Chase On a cold December night in 1926, Agatha Christie went out in her beloved Morris Cowley roadster and didn’t return home for 11 days. Here’s how her disappearance played out. By June 11, 2019 It was like a plot from one of her own novels: On the evening of Dec. 4, Agatha Christie,…

Nonfiction Credit...Tallulah Fontaine AmazonApple BooksBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. KATHLEEN HALE IS A CRAZY STALKER Six Essays By Kathleen Hale Authors hold a strange place in our cultural…

hi, friends. this is an essay about The National’s new album. The National are my favorite band, which I’ve written about previously-- if you’ve never listened to them and don’t know what their whole deal is, that essay is likely a better intro than this one, although you can definitely read and get…

NEW FEELINGS is a column devoted to the desires, moods, pathologies, and identifications that rarely had names before digital media. Read the other installments here. In her 1979 book Love and Limerence, psychologist Dorothy Tennov set out to give a formal account of “the experience of being in…

The boarding school novel should be dead. The institution it depicts is elite, insular, and deeply alien to most people. It produces graduates like Mark Zuckerburg and William Randolph Hearst — titans and megalomaniacs. It is a relic of a bygone age, a peculiar fossil. And yet, it is stubbornly…

One of my favorite pastimes is to think of every bad, awkward, or embarrassing thing I’ve ever done and let them tumble around in my head until I am prostrate on the floor. The aggregation of all these bad feelings — I said something dumb, my friends are ignoring me, my toes are weird — typically…

Driven by a desire to retreat into the warm comforts of nostalgia, I recently coughed up $2.99 to rent 1996’s A Goofy Movie on Amazon Prime. Before long, I was six years old again, bopping along to Max Goof’s school assembly disrupting performance of “Stand Out,” a song by the movie’s fictional and…

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Personal History Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life. May 20, 2019 I’ve been walking away from institutional religion for half my life, fifteen years dismantling what the first fifteen built.Illustration by Shawna X The church I grew up in…

It’s been hard to accept, at least for me, that each of our techy ideologies, while containing various merits, don’t really add up to a worldview, because technology is not the world. It’s just another layer in the Big Crappy Human System along with religion, energy, government, sex, and, more than…

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While performing at Coachella, earlier this month, the singer-songwriter Billie Eilish forgot the words to her song “All Good Girls Go to Hell.” Eilish, who is only seventeen, didn’t seem especially bothered by the lapse. She exuded a cool girl’s sprezzatura, style as nonchalance. Mumbling a little,…

Anger is energy with a message, and it’s talking to you Annie Nelson Mueller 9 min read· Apr 23, 2019 -- Credit: Malte Mueller/Getty Images For years, I was known in my friend group as “the calm one.” I took this label as a compliment because it meant I was stable. I could handle stress well. I…

Matías Insaurralde 7 min read· Apr 29, 2019 -- “Uno de los cuellos de botella que el proyecto World Links ha encontrado es la falta de una política clara por parte de los ministerios acerca del uso de las computadoras en la educación” — Robert Hawkins sobre el proyecto “World Links”, un proyecto…

This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Soraya Roberts | Longreads | April 2019 | 6 minutes (1,674 words) I didn’t do my homework last weekend. Here was the assignment: Beyoncé’s Homecoming — a concert movie with a live album tie-in — the biggest…