Hashtag #EverythingGetsAThumbsUp: How Avidity Has Overtaken American Culture
Avidity is the newfound ubiquity of “thought leadership” and the continued marginalization of actual thinking, in hashtag form.
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How Fragile Relationships and Plans Can Be in Cara Hoffman’s Running
Running is a disconcerting, moving, and ultimately treasurable novel whose rich, lived-in world and remarkably complex and empathetic protagonists remain alluring from start to finish.
Migos: C U L T U R E (take 2)
Migos’ second studio album, Culture, is a victory lap and a statement of intent.
Migos: C U L T U R E
By being made into a meme, Migos have ensured their lasting presence; even without it, however, C U L T U R E will stand as a worthy artifact.
Which Came First: O.J. Simpson or Donald Trump?
The similarities between O.J. Simpson and Donald Trump provide insight into how American celebrity works.
We Aren’t the Mods and Other Sorry Tales of a Fashion Slave
I have no experience being a mod English teenager in the 1960s, and yet for the second time in my life, for reasons at once practical and mysterious, I find myself trying to emulate one.
Sarah Thornton on What We Write About When We Write About Art
Most of Seven Days in the Art World reads like educated gossip about the misbehaving upper classes. Sarah Thornton’s project is obviously smarter, but its chatty style and fascination with the vulgarity of money and power infect her ideas.