I read Conversations with Friends alone and loved it; reading Normal People with friends was an unrelieved frustration. I'd picked it for a book club soon after finishing Sally Rooney's debut. The first hype bubble had already burst, but Conversations still felt worthy of what it had occasioned. It…
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SOPHIE, 2019. Photo: Renata Raksha. SOPHIE BELONGED TO THE FUTURE. At the last SOPHIE concert I attended, the central item on the merch table was a black T-shirt with white lettering. LIVE IN PERSON! SOPHIE LA000010302017, it announced. Four zeroes ahead of the date, four powers of ten for us to…
The Leather Boys Sukhdev Sandhu Angry Young (Gay) Men: a South London–set rarity from 1964. Colin Campbell as Reggie and Dudley Sutton as Pete in The Leather Boys. Courtesy Vinegar Syndrome and American Genre Film Archive. The Leather Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, available to watch via…
I’m still processing Sophie’s life... her nature, her work, her beauty. She was laser-focused and exceptionally intelligent, but also sensitive and perceptive. It didn’t matter whether we were talking about people or relationships or materials or music - she approached every topic with the love,…
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in a toxic relationship, your mental and physical wounds may never heal. As the old say
Threads Bluesky 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 young people today. In order to sneak a bite-size amount of control and warm feeling…
. “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 it. She sails along on trends and tweets, a fisher of men, understanding, as she writes, that…
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 of us. The truth is that you’re not doing it for me anymore. There, I ripped off the Band-Aid. You’ve…
I am a 21 year old senior in college. I am in desperate need for advice on how to lose weight. I am a biology major trying to get into med school and between school and two jobs it seems like I don’t have time for friends and family let alone working out and eating healthy. I tried meal prepping but…
This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Photo: L. Busacca/WireImage The New York Times’s Framing Britney Spears documentary casts a spell. I am thinking specifically of the stretch that chronicles Spears’s rise as a…
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 of representational techniques – point-of-view, voice, description, dialogue, plot – has managed to…
No One Is Talking About This Sasha Frere-Jones A debut novel from Patricia Lockwood, author of the memoir Priestdaddy. No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood, Riverhead Books, 205 pages, $25 • • • Patricia Lockwood—and I cannot stress this enough—is neither a dog nor a twin, but if she…
(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 find out about people’s opinions on a product, google reddit. You’ll get real people arguing, as…
Office Space How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to. November 17, 2020 As the obligations of knowledge work have grown increasingly frenetic, workers have flocked to productivity tools and techniques.Illustration by Timo Lenzen In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web…
“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-conspirator in their mutual infatuation. To those familiar with Rabbit White’s work—exhaled verses that…
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 ideas have to be both correct and novel. You can't publish papers saying things other people already…
0. Intro The end of trends has been heralded by various outlets for years (see here, here and many more on our Are.na channel). But COVID time is crazy. We had a hunch that the hype cycle itself was finally in its true death throes – related to economic collapse, popular uprising, a general sense of…
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 brother's homecoming. They had not seen Nick, who was arriving from college for the summer, in six months. In the…
Day three aboard this muggy cargo boat and I’m still incapable of turning around without bumping into a hanging bag of oranges, or a sack of wheat flour, or a jug of cooking oil. Crammed to the rafters with rapidly perishing produce, the Aquidaban is as colorful and claustrophobic as an Arabian…
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 (and when Kaliningrad was known as Königsberg), but what, exactly, is not clear. Ambiguities such…
Ilustración: Juan Carlos Viéitez. Parece intuir hacia dónde va esta conversación que no hemos empezado, dice una mujer en un libro lleno de conversaciones en las que casi nadie dialoga o, con suerte, alguien debuta torpe un titubeo. Samanta Schweblin también dejó de hablar. Fue en su niñez, durante…
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 painted as biased toward the left. | Richard Drew/AP Photo By Alex Thompson 09/26/2020 07:00 AM EDT…
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 transformed by 13 miles of bright yellow bike lanes painted over the old car lanes. Adria Gomila,…
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Photo: Tina Tyrell for New York Magazine. Set design by Eric Mestman. Photography assistance by Matt Shrier. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. My mother’s ex-husband, Jim (who, until I turned 8, I’d thought was…
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 social media and her professional work, but it didn’t really reflect her personality. So she created a…
Illustration: Angelica Alzona (GMG) Dear Fuck-Up, Most Popular 75-Year-Old Democrat Who Beat AOC for Key Role Resigns After 4 Months I Think We All Have Just Have a Few Questions If Being Mesmerized By This Relationship Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right I just broke up with a man I love dearly…
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
Why Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the ’90s
Longform Why Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the ’90s Unlocking the mysteries behind the Scottish electronic duo’s hallucinatory classic, which turns 20 this month April 3, 2018 Collages by Bryan Olson Once upon a time there was a London…
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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On April 3, the day The Outline was shut down and its editorial staff let go, my coworkers and I received hundreds of messages in public and private that went a long way toward making me feel better about suddenly losing my job during a pandemic.…
Photo: Matt Carr/Getty Images Joel Schumacher died on June 22, 2020. We are revisiting this interview, which was originally published in August of 2019, in commemoration of his life. Speed couldn’t kill Joel Schumacher, and neither could AIDS nor brutal Batman & Robin reviews, so his personal…
The usual subjects you’ll see on an anti-racist reading list. Photo-Illustration: Vulture I have this pet theory about book recommendations. They feel good to solicit, good to mete out, but someone at some point has to get down to the business of reading. And there, between giving and receiving,…
Paul is the co-founder of Postlight, a digital product studio based in New York, and a writer. The first I'd read from Paul was his fantastic and informative 38,000-word opus, What Is Code?, in Bloomberg. We started there, talking about code literacy in the general public, and then moved to topics…
A Critic at Large What you learn from the Very Short Introduction series. October 9, 2017 A yearning for mastery, or the illusion of it, has helped make a nerdy series from a nerdy publishing house impressively popular.Illustration by Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford In addition to all of your other…
Once, the pair tried an old Swedish fishing method that involved stringing lots of worms on a thread and then rolling them “into a quivering, stinking ball of slime and secretions and writhing bodies.” To catch the necessary worms, Svensson’s father attached electric cables to the prongs of a…
Mondadori Portfolio/Electa/Bruno Balestrini via Bridgeman Images Detail from Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello altarpiece, 1325–1328 One of the first things I read about China’s coronavirus outbreak were the divorces: the many couples who supposedly emerged from quarantine no longer able to…
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