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Brilliant Zingers and Vodka Stingers

A.D. Amorosi — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000

During the second episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans — producer Ryan Murphy’s streaming series based on author Truman Capote’s lived-in-and-laughed-over 1960s among Manhattan’s “ladies who lunch” — titular actor Tom Hollander truly has his way with spite. Leaning with persnickety dread into a line that all but explains the raison d’etre of biting […]

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Toilets, Papers, Cardboard Boxes of a Country’s Secrets

Marek Makowski — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:30:00 +0000

When the details of former president Trump’s first indictment scandalized the public last June, the most shocking revelations must have been the photos themselves. The 49-page indictment included six photos depicting cardboard boxes of classified material stored in unsecured locations at Mar-a-Lago: stacked on the stage of a ballroom and in storage rooms, tipped over […]

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Misunderstanding Maggie Haberman

Stephen Silver — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:30:00 +0000

Maggie Haberman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times political reporter, CNN commentator, and now biographer of former president Donald Trump, is one of those figures who inspire anger and hatred from different people on different sides of the political spectrum. While Haberman has been an active journalist since the mid-1990s, it was her Trump-era work […]

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Under the (Magazine) Covers

Stan Tymorek — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:30:00 +0000

Since Tod Lippy had worked for other magazines before starting his own, you might think that’s how he learned what to do to make his new venture a success. But when asked about Esopus, the design and culture magazine he founded in 2003, he has said it’s the things he learned not to do that […]

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Sugar and VICE

Jared Spears — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:42:18 +0000

There’s a scene in Serrano Shoots Cuba, a VICE documentary series uploaded on YouTube, that’s particularly uncomfortable to watch. In this scene Andres Serrano, the title figure and global art-world celebrity, photographs a woman inside an apartment in Havana. Standing before a backdrop, the woman stands topless, her body almost entirely exposed. Seemingly without warning, Serrano reaches forward and pulls her last remaining item of clothing down off of her hips, revealing the last bits of her skin to his […]

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Fishing for Farson

Rex Bowman — Thu, 14 May 2020 11:30:41 +0000

The following is based on a book co-written by the author to be released by the University of Virginia Press in 2021. People familiar with the sunny zenith of Negley Farson’s life could not have imagined that he would be so widely forgotten today. He would have seemed, no doubt, to them, as memorable as Babe Ruth’s swing or Frank Sinatra’s voice. […]

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Inside Story

Stephen Silver — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:30:50 +0000

In an age when the president of the United States frequently denounces hostile members of the press as “the enemy of the people,” the plight of journalists seeking to go about their work without outside interference is a frequently and worrisome topic of discussion. Journalism today is under siege from multiple directions, whether it’s economic […]

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The Mirror has Two Gazes

Sana Vora — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:30:03 +0000

Carrie Rickey is a feminist art and film critic, raised in Los Angeles before attending the University of California, San Diego. Rickey’s work history spans from writing art criticism for Artforum and Art in America, to being a columnist for the now-defunct Mademoiselle. She often contributes to publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, […]

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Fallout

Perry Crowe — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:19:54 +0000

I stand before bland Mid-City storefronts — dry cleaner, computer repair, abandoned — on Pico Boulevard, the early hour keeping traffic light. I’m here, alone, at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, to rendezvous with a vanful of Communists; my goal is to hitch a ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in time for a […]

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Balloon Meets Pin

Jonathan Clarke — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 12:30:19 +0000

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. — Jacques Lacan The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Laypeople are often fascinated by the law — […]

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