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Apocalypse Shopping List: Guns, Motorcycles, and… Bitcoin?
“I’ll be candid: I’m stockpiling now on real estate to generate passive income.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Profiles & Interviews
Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean
On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean
On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.
Posted inStory
‘I’m Incredulous That People Do This Repeatedly. The Second Book Thing Is So Real.’
Mary H.K. Choi discusses her latest novel, which examines how “holograms and digital envoys” represent us online, and why it feels like her “second book signals the death of my first.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
How Jokes Won the Election
“It’s the thrill of hyperbole, of treating the extreme as normal, the shock (and the joy) of seeing the normal get violated, fast. “Buh-leeve me, buh-leeve me!” Trump said in his act, again and again. Lying about telling the truth is part of the joke.”
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Eli Saslow on the Slow-Motion Toppling of Derek Black’s White Supremacism
Eli Saslow says the push and pull of resistance (from angry classmates) and civil discourse (with others willing to be kind to him) is what changed Derek Black.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
More Than a Riot Going On: A ‘Detroit’-Inspired Reading List
The failures of Kathryn Bigelow’s film undercut the fullness, complexity, and beauty of Detroit.
Posted inBlog Post, Media, Unapologetic Women
Hollywood and ‘Disaster Feminism’
The women of Hollywood are seizing this moment.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
A Conversation With Ariel Levy About Writing a Memoir That Avoids ‘Invoking Emotional Tropes’
The New Yorker staff writer on her new memoir, ‘The Rules Do Not Apply.’
