CULTURE

Recession Indicators Are Everywhere | The New Yorker

On April 9th, Luke Marion, a gardener and seed purveyor who runs the YouTube channel MIgardener, posted a video that…

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“Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” by Adam Levin.

“Terminator 2” was a good choice. Throughout the whole movie I forgot about the groping. Source link

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Are You There, Zeus? It’s Me, Hermes

Hey Zeus, is this a good time to chat? I’ll be quick. Yes, of course you can lie down. And…

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Desperate for Botox | The New Yorker

I first got Botox about eight years ago, at a med spa on a busy, ugly stretch of Highway 49…

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The Zambian Sensibility of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”

Most people who see the Zambian British director Rungano Nyoni’s extraordinary new film, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” will not…

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Disney’s “Snow White” Remake Whistles But Doesn’t Work

Nothing good ever seems to come of Gal Gadot singing. Those of us with clear memories of March, 2020, during…

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Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness

Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist at Yale, teaches the most popular course in the university’s three-hundred-year history, Psychology and the…

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“The Frenzy,” by Joyce Carol Oates

With the girl beside him, he has all that he requires. So long as they are alone together, and she…

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