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“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 i

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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

Jeremy O. Harris, who’s a producer on HBO’s Euphoria, tweeted that the show was made for people “with an intellect for CINEMA not the impatience of TELEVISION.”

Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"

But what’s worse for me as a collector and cultural consumer is ultimately better for the platform: I’ll keep subscribing to Spotify because it’s the only way I’ll have access to my music.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet pr

Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... See more

Sari Azout • "What Does Sublime Actually Do?"

Tragedy and comedy, problem and solution, hope and despair, they’re all jumbled up together in the human condition.

Andrew Wilson • If God, Then What?

While modern newsletters like The Hustle and theSkimm built their audiences with daily curation and expanded their content offering from there, The Economist offers a playbook legacy publishers can leverage to retain subscribers by building their own curation muscle.