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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge

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At the hipster indie cinema. Paid more for the beer than the ticket. I love this place. Always an incredible selection of classic films on the calendar and you can tell the staff truly cares. They even greet me by name. If they knew my political views they’d happily see me killed https://t.co/qGeiBHNBzL

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close-reading reality: finding alternative, unintended interpretations of everyday communication.

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The New York Times will triumph financially, dramatically so, and utterly fail as an intellectual institution, at least by its former standards. The editorial branding will be august pronouncements about ‘the paper of record’, but the business model is pure Netflix: All The News Fit To Binge.

Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites

Lee's racial critique of his fellow director is off the mark. It is almost wholly ad hominem. It focuses on the character of Tarantino's race rather than the character of his work—brilliant work that allows the word nigger to be heard in a rich panoply of contexts and intonations.

Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

By far the best account of Benny Leonard, both of his mystique and of his fighting style, I discovered, is by Budd Schulberg in one of his collections of boxing pieces. Schulberg, to my mind, may be the most underrated of all American authors, the author of the best firsthand account of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel The Disenchanted, and the