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One of the most illuminating television scenes ever filmed—a perfect analogy for the contemporary texture of reality—occurs in Season 4 of The Office, …
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I went to the US Open last week, a fun end-of-summer New York ritual that felt especially exciting after last year’s hiatus. Like any other live sporti…
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An important ritual throughout my youth was inspecting someone’s music collection the first time you visited their house or rode in their car and using…
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Last week I wrote a piece for Real Life about the tech industry’s disinterest in fashion and its broader rejection of public space and the idea of a co…
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Tse Wei Lim has a good newsletter about food, restaurants, and their economics—“food in the context of food systems,” as he describes it. His most rece…
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I tweeted the other day that “there’s too much internet now” and blamed it on the pandemic. Have you felt that way lately? Regardless of whether the vi…
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I’m reading John Stilgoe’s book Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845, an incredible book with a hilariously boring-sounding title that is much less d…
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The 2000 Onion article “Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn’t Own a Television” captures a familiar trope from that era, complete with the perfect …
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Here’s the top comment on the YouTube video for “Heaven or Las Vegas” by the Cocteau Twins: “The vibe of this song makes me feel like I’m a high school…
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On July 13, 2011—ten years ago yesterday—I moved to New York City. I arrived, parallel parked the U-Haul I had driven down from Boston, carried all my …
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I don’t really play video games anymore but I’ve become increasingly fascinated by speedrunning in recent years. A speedrun, if you’re not familiar, is…
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Sean Monahan (who has a great newsletter) recently wrote an essay about what he calls the “Tinderization of the internet,” describing a sea change he h…
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