"Scenes of glorious excess make the screen hum with energy in S.S. Rajamouli’s action epic set in British colonial India."

>"The Clock of the Long Now, a 10,000-year clock, is representative of the kind of long-term thinking and planning humanity needs more of."

"Social media companies have failed to legitimate their public power because they have responded to such public problems like engineers.”

>"Being anti-war isn’t naive, but a serious, considered, and humane position."

"the proud family was unabashedly black. and the new show is too—with some p. big caveats. great piece by my girl *calllmenadira."

"journalism needs to engage with critics," rather than dismissing them. (And of course, I mean legitimate criticism around reporting, editing, framing and not harassment/trolling)."

"This roundtable of ⁦°NewYorker⁩ critics about sex scenes gets to my mixed feelings on EUPHORIA. It’s a good and very well-made show, but it’s insistence on being 90% about sex is, ironically, sort of a turnoff for me."

"Knee-jerk repulsion tells us more about those who disapprove of body art than those who embrace it."

"The combination of next-day delivery, Ring surveillance footage and TikTok has put a spotlight on Amazon drivers. But it’s also created a new main character: the package itself."

“Pure Colour,” Heti’s most mystical work yet, considers what judgment means in both art and life."

"Christopher Y. Lew, Outland's chief artistic director, introduces the NFT Marketplace and its artist-driven approach to commissioning."

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"some thoughts on parul sehgal's essay and certain books"

"Not even love will save Yanagihara’s characters. Her fantasies of suffering and illness are designed only to produce a very specific kind of love, and this love is not curative but palliative — it results, sooner or later, in the death of _...Read More_

“The very way they discussed the film exemplified the problem that the film was trying to draw attention to. Some of the responses to the movie could have appeared in the movie itself.”