To call Natalie Wynn a YouTuber seems like a terrible understatement. On a platform awash in makeup tutorials, guys playing video games, horrible comedy and conspiracy theorists, Wynn – whose YouTube
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A Reflection on Meals, Growing Up, and Gathering Text: Thessaly La Force Like most people I know, I didn’t learn to cook until I was out of college. What need did an 18-year-old have for it? I was a f
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There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Imagine if you, as a budding productivity enthusia
Apart from closing for repairs several years ago and a few days after 9/11, Balthazar has been open every day for the last 23 years. And then—COVID hit. Six other restaurants of mine have shut their d
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Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler Catapult, 265 pp., $26.00 Why do I feel so bad all the time is the question asked by so many yo
. “I know you identify as a reject, I know that’s, like, your ‘brand,’ like it’s some unprecedented form of suffering that gives you secret wisdom. All this nonstop high-frequency whining, that’s what’s facile.”
If navigating the internet were an Olympic sport, Patricia Lockwood would sweep the medals. She is not a coder or a programmer (though surely she could be). She doesn’t live in the internet but upon i
Dear writing career, Sorry for doing this by letter. But I want you to be able to come back to this after the spite has worn off. Eventually you’ll understand that this was the best outcome for both o
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Since its consolidation at the end of the eighteenth century, the realist novel has been the premier vehicle for the depiction of contemporary life. For over two hundred years, a relatively fixed set
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(Cross-posted from my blog) The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. Possessions 1. If you want to fi
In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web designer and avowed Macintosh enthusiast, was working as a freelance project manager for software companies. He had held similar roles for years, so he k
“This is now a pious wife account,” the poet Rachel Rabbit White recently declared on Instagram, alongside a portrait with Nico Walker: the veteran turned convict, the author of Cherry, the co-conspir
November 2020 There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your idea
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My Addicted Son A father's story. One windy day in May 2002, my young children, Jasper and Daisy, who were 8 and 5, spent the morning cutting, pasting and coloring notes and welcome banners for their
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A BRICK HOUSE CRUMBLES in the village of Veselovka, Russia, just a few miles from Kaliningrad. It’s said that Immanuel Kant had something to do with this house back when the region was part of Prussia
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A company executive responds to claims of bias. The growth of right-wing content on Facebook has enraged liberals, who accuse the social media giant of kowtowing to the right out of fear of being pain
When the citizens of Barcelona returned to the streets in mid-May after a 2-month lockdown, they discovered a changed city. Not only was it overgrown with plants and wildlife, but the streets had been
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Sara Garner had a nagging feeling something wasn’t quite right. A software engineer, she was revamping her personal site, but it just didn’t feel like her. Sure, it had the requisite links to her soci
Illustration: Angelica Alzona (GMG) Dear Fuck-Up, I just broke up with a man I love dearly because I am more gay than not, and need some time to live out this knowledge. My first romantic experiences
If I can poach an egg, maybe I won’t have to leave my marriage. The thought didn’t come to me fully formed. Whether it was an accident or not, the sudden and unbidden urge to poach an egg coincided wi