CULTURE

Rae Armantrout Reads Dorothea Lasky

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Daniel Craig’s Masculine Constructs | The New Yorker

In Daniel Craig’s new movie, he’s seen prowling around exotic environs wearing a white suit, drinking too much, and generally…

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The Explosion of Matt Gaetz and Other Early Lessons in Trump 2.0

That was fast. Barely two weeks after winning reëlection, Donald Trump has already so thoroughly owned the news cycle that…

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The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority

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Into the Phones of Teens

About midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we…

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Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach Victory Celebration

Since early in the evening, the sense was that the rally-like crowd, drinking wine from a cash bar and eating…

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Watching an American Election from Across the Pond

Roman Road, in London’s East End, is a busy thoroughfare just south of Victoria Park. It sits on the bones…

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Garbage Time at the 2024 Finish Line

On Sunday evening, high up in the rafters at Madison Square Garden, I watched thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters come…

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