“We didn’t keep dogs of our own; we were nomadic agents hired by owners, who were often the breeders as well.” — Andrew Norman Wilson
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“We didn’t keep dogs of our own; we were nomadic agents hired by owners, who were often the breeders as well.” — Andrew Norman Wilson
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“The honorees were figures of the Seventies and Eighties, Trump’s salad days, and several of them had some obvious connection to chapters in his past—his disco period, for example.”
Thomas Frank on the culture wars at the Kennedy Center.
“The more I played PowerWash Simulator 2, the more I started to think, 'In sixty years, will power-washing even be a thing?' As I get older, I’ve started to worry more and more about the future.”
From reviews of the video game PowerWash Simulator 2.
“It’s easy to describe Caravaggio as a genius of light, but he was an expert in darkness too, in life and in art, on how it also calls to us, how it can be soft or beckoning or another side of the story, and not just obscuring, or an absence, or the opposite of knowledge.”
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Sam Kriss, who wrote about the next generation of AI startups in our March issue, spoke with Will Stephenson about AI’s false starts, doomsday scenarios, and eccentric proponents.
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“Everyone knew I was on track to win Best in Show someday. Even with the bad hip, Mom could still train, groom, drink Kahlúa mudslides, and drive—but I was Mr. Showtime.”
From a new story by Andrew Norman Wilson.
“ROBESON: You are the author of all the bills that are going to keep all kinds of decent people
out of the country.
WALTER: No, only your kind.”
By Marjorie Garber, from Paul Robeson’s 1956 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
“Blakely’s suggestion that interpretive research might be better suited to the unique threat posed by MAGA is likewise unpersuasive.”
Colin Cepuran contends with Jason Blakely’s essay on political science in the age of Trump.
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“I remember those days in the weeks after we first arrived as passing in a state of exultancy that I attributed largely to the light.”
Nicole Krauss on Caravaggio and Georges de la Tour.
“If I could muster this kind of enthusiasm for any real-life task that’s just as conceptually boring, I’d be unstoppable, but alas, this is the only world with free soap.”
From reviews of the video game PowerWash Simulator 2.
“But a dance can last only so long. He could find better ways to luxuriate in his loneliness. Let’s help him out and say he’s obsessed with baseball.”
Dan Piepenbring on Robert Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
“There is potential for current or planned actions in orbit to cause serious degradation of the orbital environment or lead to catastrophic outcomes.”
Enter a new satellite tool— the CRASH clock.
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“The anal specialist—‘my butt doctor,’ the rabbi proudly called him—did not forbid anal intercourse.”
From the novel My Lover, the Rabbi, by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social.
“After the Second World War, sumo was the first of Japan’s traditional cultural institutions to stage a comeback, probably because its connections to the empire were poorly understood by the Allied forces.” —@viajoshhunt.bsky.social
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“Night: children’s great no-man’s-land. We were also worthy of love. But we didn’t want to live.”
From Mariella Mehr’s “Nightmare of the Embryos, out in March with New Directions.
“I’ve always been drawn to Caravaggio. You can look at his paintings and feel you’re witnessing the birth of cinema, of a drama that unfolds in the medium of light.” —Nicole Krauss
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“In the absence of incontrovertible proof that Iran has developed a bomb, or seeks to do so, the crisis is about intentions, and no outsider knows Iran's intentions, or how the country is changing as a result of international pressure and threats.” (July 2006)
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“With all this money and opportunity, a person can no more fail than someone can go hungry at a restaurant that serves all you can eat.”
Dennis Cass on the promise of Silicon Valley (July 2000).
“My lover, the rabbi, developed an anal ailment, not life-threatening, not connected to digestion, not caused by sexual activity, not contagious, not within the purview of most medical practitioners he consulted …” — Wayne Koestenbaum
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“The techno-industrialists believe that America needs to apply modern computing capabilities to industrial production. They believe that technology has drifted too far into the invisible realm of bits or into the digital cloud.” —Maddy Crowell
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“We feel, as her camera takes them in, that the narrator has reached the limit of what she can know about her parents. And perhaps that Hjorth, too, has reached the limit of what she can tell us about this family from the perspective of the wronged daughter.”
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“The merest departure from orthodoxy whipped its theologians into a lather. It’s always enjoyable to see rationalists behaving irrationally, especially when they’re as costive and comically German as this bunch.”
Dan Piepenbring on A Scandal In Königsberg.
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From July 2006: “Now there is no Khomeini, less religiosity, and, instead of specific hatreds, a generalized cynicism toward those who hold political power—whether in Iran or elsewhere.” —Christopher de Bellaigue
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“We often think of the Renaissance as a rediscovery of Greek and Roman thought and of the best of its humanism, but in fact, since time and history move in one direction only, it was less a rebirth than a relearning how to see.” —Nicole Krauss
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“Once, San Francisco drew in runaway children, artists, and freaks; today it’s an enormous magnet for highly agentic young men. I set out to meet them.” — Sam Kriss
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“There is potential for current or planned actions in orbit to cause serious degradation of the orbital environment or lead to catastrophic outcomes.”
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“It was always about that. The search for a lost land. Love. This fucked-up youth, always exploited, betrayed, bribed, lost.”
From Mariella Mehr’s “Nightmare of the Embryos, out in March with New Directions.
“The soap is easily the best addition to the game’s already rock-solid cleaning loop.
There are also new and more varied types of dirt.”
From reviews of the video game PowerWash Simulator 2.
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