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The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans
A man buys a drawing. A terrible friction materializes between the two of them, the man and the drawing, the latter of which might have been a vision on...
How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles
Jerry Hsu grew up in San Jose, about an hour south of San Francisco, and, for a time, he assumed he would never leave. He didn’t need to. In...
The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond
As someone who interviews celebrities for a living, I appreciate any twist to the form, which can get bogged down by promotional pablum and canned anecdotes. We can thank...
The Blockbuster Audacity of “Hope”
Na’s solution to this problem is speed: the faster he can keep his aliens moving—Va’migere, alas, is not alone—the less likely we are to scrutinize the malevolent jumble of...
Jocelyn Bioh’s “Mean Girls” at a Ghana Beauty Pageant
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Reporting the Big World
Ascherson may not have known it, but he was establishing the pattern of his career, and indeed his life: an engagement with the world driven by conscience and curiosity,...
Taking In the Scene at Daisy Chain Fields, the Zoomer Lilith Fair
Performances alternated between two stages—Marigold and Dandelion—without overlap, in theory giving all forty-five thousand attendees a shot at laying eyes and/or ears on every set. In practice, this worked...
Five Great Campus Novels
“Half the campus was designed by Bottom the Weaver, half by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,” Randall Jarrell writes in his 1954 satire, “Pictures from an Institution.” In the...
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
What do we hope to communicate when we film and photograph food? In his 1957 collection, “Mythologies,” Roland Barthes argued that food photography was often an exercise in whitewashing:...
All Rise! Coyote Court Is Now in Session
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before this honorable court are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. Today, the court...