Nate Jones

I saw Hamnet 😢 letterboxd.com/kn8/film/ham...

Dasha Nekrasova and Aiden Gillen

In the criminal justice system, parenting-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Oslo, the dedicated detectives who investigate these fractious creative personalities are members of an elite squad known as the Sentimental Value Unit. These are their stories.

Both this and the Nuzzi profile were suffused with the sense that it is somehow gauche to say straightforwardly that bad things are bad. And you'll never guess who this reporter's old pal is, and who his boyfriend is.

The Strategic Uncoupling of Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander

This is our "Tony Blair and Gordon Brown at Granita": www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...

Kept it going this morning with a few of Steely Dan's greatest hits.

Peg: So much going on she wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. Ultimately swayed by the power of MMcD

Hey Nineteen: Did not like this one at all. Too sharp and syncopated maybe?

Dirty Work: This one soothed her. PTA was right!

Struck by the continuing implication that this is something that happened TO her, rather than something she did.

Here are the baby's reactions to Past Masters 1&2:

I Feel Fine: Liked the beat
Yes It Is: Too emotionally intense
Day Tripper: Enjoyed me explaining how the primacy of the riff prefigured the shift to Rock
Rain: Too avant-garde
Lady Madonna: Dug the piano
Hey Jude: Stopped crying, fell asleep

There are going to be A LOT of misleading, vaguely-worded headlines — particularly from non-music publications — in the near future trying to drum up hysteria about the AI Music Takeover. Please try to not take them at their word. We're still a long way off from this actually being a thing.

My little song rhyming "daddy time" with "not a crime" has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my song.

Stand with Condé Nast Union. Sign our petition.

Stand with Condé Nast Union  We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting. Use the link in bio to add your name.

Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.

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Bill de Blasio posting a voting selfie and tagging Hot Girls For Zohran

GET A JOB
STAY AWAY FROM HER

My MIL, who lives in Arizona, texted asking me not to vote for him because of his connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. This stuff is everywhere.

Everything Looks Perfect From Far Away An essay on "Peak Indie," inspired by Chris DeVille's book Such Great Heights

hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book

open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...

Quick Pickled Chiles and Garlic Recipe Quick-pickled garlic and chiles are a great condiment for punching up the flavor of Asian soups, noodles, stir-fries, and salads.

Made this with a teaspoon of Thai chili flakes subbed for the peppers, and it just may be the world's greatest condiment:
www.seriouseats.com/quick-pickle...

Glad to see Vulture taking a chance on a little-known writer from the north of England: www.vulture.com/article/paul...

This is devastating. And surely a gross miscarriage of justice. Again.

Stellan Skarsgård Knows Best Stellan Skarsgård, the self-proclaimed ‘nepo daddy,’ is at the top of his game as a narcissistic patriarch in ‘Sentimental Value.’

Stellan Skarsgård, the self-proclaimed ‘nepo daddy,’ is at the top of his game as a narcissistic patriarch in ‘Sentimental Value.’

On some level it's rewarding to learn that Donald Trump has the exact same vision of his presidency that I do.

Glen Matlock shouldering a heavy load for the Pistols 😂

More that Sinners' overseas box office was weak while OBAA's was strong. It's like one of those optical illusions where two colors that look different are actually the same.

Something you might not expect from the way both movies are talked about is that Sinners and One Battle After Another have grossed almost the exact same amount internationally.

Susan Orlean Knows She’s Had a Charmed Career “I hate all these stories about Condé Nast,” New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells writer Madeline Leung Coleman. “It implies that everybody was an idiot who wanted to fly the Concorde and eat caviar.’

“I hate all these stories about Condé Nast,” New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells writer Madeline Leung Coleman. “It implies that everybody was an idiot who wanted to fly the Concorde and eat caviar.’

from me -- a profile of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker whose work has perfectly met our age of surveillance and interrogation and asks the imperative question of: Who are we, and what comes next? IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT = masterpiece, imo.

[whispering to date while watching Moonstruck] that's the moon

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

"The original cut of Annie Hall ran nearly two-and-a-half hours, and according to its editor Ralph Rosenblum was a shapeless mass of bits. "And so we began cutting in the direction of that relationship,” he wrote. Result: 4 Oscars. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Season of the Safdies Begins It’s the season of the Safdies. One brother’s movie faltered at the box office (‘The Smashing Machine’), and the other’s became the secret screening heard ’round the cinephile world (’Marty Supreme’). Will either win an Oscar?

It’s the season of the Safdies. One brother’s movie faltered at the box office (‘The Smashing Machine’), and the other’s became the secret screening heard ’round the cinephile world (’Marty Supreme’). Will either win an Oscar?

Despite what you may read online, Manute Bol and Flea were NOT born on the exact same day (Bol's listed birth date was plucked out of thin air by a college coach) and neither were Malcolm X and Pol Pot (they were actually six days apart).

Sincere question: What are these women doing that is different from "2016-era resistance liberalism"?

www.thecut.com/article/jenn...

Why look at Bluesky when you could look into your boo's eyes.