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Who Gets to Stay Famous? (opens the original)
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A few months ago, the internet declared that Lizzo was a flop. I grew up on Stan Twitter: while they do indeed love to decide that people are flops, flopping, or Khias (a truly cruel term named after the singer Khia, but now completely detached from her name and used solely as an insult), often, they have the data to back it up. The anti-stans had facts, figures, charts, and graphs: Lizzo’s cultural power had completely waned after she was sued by a former backup dancer and accused of sexual mi
Q2/Q3 in Books (opens the original)
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For the last five months, I’ve been felled by a mysterious pain. It travels from my neck to my shoulders to my arms, and I cannot figure out what it is. I do not say this to make excuses: I’ve written about my “tough it out” mentality when it comes to my chronic condition, but more that I’m surprised by how little reading I’ve gotten done this year.My screentime is down, my wordcount is way down, my entire life has been rearranged, but ultimately, I feel the difference most keenly here: the body
On Grace and Grief: Stacey Yu Talks KITTEN (opens the original)
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Stacey and I met on a panel about BookTok and publishing, but I’d been following her for months before that. A dedicated thinker and a student of the human condition, Stacey’s tastes and mine aligned when it came to books about finding oneself, desire, and the mysteries surrounding being a person today.Kitten, Stacey’s debut novel, is out today, and it is gorgeous work about power, agency, longing, and obsessio
The Great Shame of a Great Man (opens the original)
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“Being a man today, it’s like arriving late to the party. It’s not even opportunism — the patriarchy is a smoking heap of rubble.”Linea Maja Ernst, Waist DeepSpoilers for The Odyssey (2026), Oppenheimer, Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Prestige. Content warning and trigger warning for mentions of SA and war crimes.It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you’re an a
How Mean is Too Mean? (opens the original)
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“... Because Hannah doesn’t see herself as a person with any power, she doesn’t realize that she’s capable of hurting anybody else’s feelings. The world is happening to her.” — Lena Dunham on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang PodcastCan great art be made about a video game? In Dad Don’t Read This, we’re transported into the bedroom of a teenage girl obsessed with The Sims. I was a bit obsessed with the play before even seeing it— the Plumbob heavy marketing appea
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