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When you’re young, you are certain of your capacity to imagine a way out of the previous generation’s problems. There is a different way to grow old, paths that don’t involve conforming and selling out. We would figure it out together, and we would be different together. I just had to find people to be different with, a critical mass of others to
... See moreHua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
From ancient lullabies to modern memes, new hits serve old purposes: to fill the time, to familiarize the strange, to estrange the familiar, to infect with emotion, to create meaning. What’s different today is the means—the ability of small players, like Leslie, to amass large audiences, and the power of large companies, like Disney, to achieve
... See moreDerek Thompson • Hit Makers
Accumulating books was his way of interacting with the world, of building a worldview that he furthered in his critical writing.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
MF: “They literally create a community that the density and the scale is based on their favorite rapper. So when we talk about heights, they're not picking an arbitrary height, say I want a building that’s five stories or a building that’s 13 stories. If your favorite rapper is Lupe Fiasco,... See more
Michael Ford • Can Hip-Hop Inspire A New Generation Of Architects?
“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on
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He was a wind chime in human form, dangling dorkily from the glorious tree of higher education.
Rufi Thorpe • Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel
Mobb Deep song “Survival of the Fittest” opens
Hanif Abdurraqib • There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Today’s pop culture offers few examples of such people. What we get instead is a superficial and unsatisfying churn of short-term celebs and trends. The space vacated by challenging novels, experimental cinema, and difficult... See more