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This week: the Bronx’s corpse flower, Jesmyn Ward on hip hop, the danger of SNAP’s expiration, horror and healing, Zohran jack-o-lanterns, and more.
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Community
Required Reading
This week: an homage to the Young Lords, wool in Armenia, AI is not your friend, remembering Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, whale personhood, cuffing season at Frieze, and more.
Community
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This week: Andy Warhol’s autobiography, remembering D’Angelo, unpacking politics and mall architecture in LA, the long history of truffles, the problem with “invasive” species, and more.
Community
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McCarthyism 2.0, MAGA hits a wall, feminist spice mill collective, man with a giant vegetable, Tesla douchebags, and more.
Community
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This week: film restorers perform magic, sellout comedians in Riyadh, Native boarding school survivors tell their stories, remembering Jane Goodall, ranking pasta shapes, and more.
Community
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This week: how Serbia inspired the Renaissance, an independent magazine sues ICE, Shakespeare’s enigmatic rival, audiobook narrators deserve better, the music of Palestinian tatreez, and more.
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This week: Ta-Nehisi Coates on responses to Charlie Kirk’s death, building the Sagrada Família, the Studio Museum’s intergenerational impact, plastic surgery waste, and more.
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This week: Nan Goldin interviews Mahmoud Khalil, Jane Austen and money, Wikipedia under attack, Etsy witches, trolling the National Guard in DC, and more.
Community
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This week: rewriting the stories of two forgotten artists, how Jaws gave sharks a bad rep, Afghanistan earthquake aid, shady influencer funding, a radical history of boxing, and more.
Community
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This week: The ethics of design, Noguchi Museum workers speak out, Native communities on the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz,” Letterboxd woes, music classes in Gaza, and more.
Community
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This week: Sudanese diasporic photography, art-world novels, inside Gaza’s only Catholic church, scientists ditch X, “Christian girl fall” threatens to return, and more.
Community
Required Reading
This week: the death of Brat Summer, the problem with The Gilded Age, intersex activism, drunk architecture, and can we finally say “like” now?