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Caitlin Clark is famous because she used to play for the iowa writers workshop

I’ve never heard of this business, don’t live in this city, it’s not even close to my birthday

bluestone lane. blue bottle. blue hill stone barns. blue bottle lane. bottled blue stones. bluey barn. barnaby blues. stone bottles filled with blue. rolling hills of blue stones, a lane winding through

For The Hollywood Reporter's #SustainabilityIssue, I wrote about recent films (Evil Does Not Exist, Afire, Banel & Adama) that treat our current climate crisis as a series of fraught encounters between humans and the environment instead of one big catastrophic event hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

Wrote about Diane Oliver for INDY Week’s Reading Issue. Grateful for Sarah Edwards, her edits, and the space. indyweek.com/culture/in-dia…

Who did this

One of my favorite things about criticism (reading it, writing it) is how it can enable coolness and clarity of thought. Began this review feeling surly at state of memoir/the career memoirist's shtick, finished it feeling something else entirely newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

at wimpleton whites are required but your shirt can say chipotle on it!

I reviewed Yasmin Zaher's heady debut, "The Coin," about a chic Palestinian schoolteacher in NYC: nytimes.com/2024/07/11/boo…

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Don’t ask why this hvac guy was available on such short notice

Jane Rosenberg's DRAWN TESTIMONY collects 40 years' worth of her sketches in high-profile federal court cases. (Below, Ghislaine Maxwell turns to stare down the artist herself.) nytimes.com/2024/08/16/boo…

The vulnerability of online shopping in the aisle seat

Lived a dream: spoke with the brilliant Carlos Rojas, the primary English-language translator for Yan Lianke, about making art under authoritarianism and everything else. Grateful for Sarah Edwards’s edits and INDY Week’s space. indyweek.com/culture/carlos…

phone autocorrected nymag to nymph: true!

end of august in the office, so quiet you can hear a pin drop, then Joumana Khatib yells "does anybody happen to know if dostoevsky supported the end of the ottoman empire"

Unconvinced

I reviewed the "Flaneuse" and "Art Monsters" author Lauren Elkin's first novel, "Scaffolding," about a Parisian psychoanalyst going through a deliciously hedonistic psychological breakdown of her own nytimes.com/2024/09/17/boo…