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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The advantage she had of having roughly twelve concentrations across college made her into quite a pantomath, which was a word she learned when she’d flirted with concentrating in classics.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner • Long Island Compromise: A sensational new novel by the international bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble
The eruption of these issues into the realm of art via the uncritical valorization of care no doubt contributed to my “yuck,” insofar as it risks suggesting that art—a realm to which women have been allowed entrance basically one second ago in human history—should become yet another place where women must grapple with an already-feminized,
... See moreMaggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
The turn, in art, from the reparative to a demand for repair, treats art less as “a ‘third thing’ between people whose meaning ‘is owned by no one, but which subsists between [artist and spectator]’” and more as something whose meaning and function can be named and adjudicated—something that can, in fact, be moved out of the category of art, and
... See moreMaggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“They didn’t have the word teen yet,” McCracken told me, so that wasn’t how journalists mocked the largely female audience that adored these stars. “They used moronic at that time. Women were seen to have the minds of children.” (She clarified that this was originally a clinical term coming out of the eugenics movement, used to indicate that a
... See moreKaitlyn Tiffany • Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
Blaise Lucey • The Death of Calvin and Hobbes
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
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