“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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“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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“Do dogs even care about beauty-pageant success? If people fashion the breed standards, can’t they change them so dogs are healthier? Wouldn’t everyone be happier if we all decided to sculpt clay instead of flesh?” —Andrew Norman Wilson
02.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Watching arguably the greatest rikishi in history at the peak of his powers was all that kept many fans from abandoning the scandal-plagued sport, though some still struggled with the fact that he wasn’t Japanese.” — @viajoshhunt.bsky.social
02.03.2026 13:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. military has attacked Iran—both times without President Trump seeking congressional approval. Read the argument @chrislehmann.bsky.social made for Trump’s impeachment after the 2025 strikes on nuclear facilities.
28.02.2026 18:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Every month in our Findings column, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi presents a constellation of the most—and least—important scientific discoveries.
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From the March Harper’s Index.
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“Was there ever another painter who so consistently corralled tension, conflict, emotion, and light to scale the apogee of human drama on the canvas?”
Nicole Krauss on Caravaggio and Georges de la Tour.
John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Twain Dreams” is a finalist in Reviews and Criticism.
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“The Goon Squad,” by Daniel Kolitz, is a finalist in the Features category.
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We’re excited to announce that the American Society of Magazine Editors has recognized Daniel Kolitz’s “The Goon Squad” and John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Twain Dreams” as finalists for the National Magazine Awards.
27.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
“Hjorth, a devoted reader of Kierkegaard, subjects the mothers in her novels to a special kind of moral scrutiny.”
Elaine Blair on Vigdis Hjorth.
“Roy Lee is not like other people. He belongs to a new and possibly permanent overclass.”
Sam Kriss reports from San Francisco on the next generation of AI technologists.
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“He’s captured, actually too well, the all-encompassing power of make-believe, which feeds with one hand as it chokes with the other.”
Dan Piepenbring on Robert Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association.
“Trotsky screamed in such a way that Mercader immediately knew that he would never forget the sound as long as he lived.”
From Josh Ireland’s The Death of Trotsky, out with Dutton ( @duttonbooks.bsky.social ).
“As a festival of flattery, the Kennedy Center Honors aligns precisely with the MAGA sensibility.”
Thomas Frank on the culture wars at the Kennedy Center.
“The main premise of ‘techno-industrialism’ was that Silicon Valley might help solve the riddle that had stumped policymakers for more than forty years: how to reverse the tide of deindustrialization in a globalized economy.” —Maddy Crowell
26.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Considered as part of Hjorth’s body of work on the story of family abuse, Repetition offers her most sustained attempt to imagine the parents’ morally compromised existence.”
Elaine Blair on the novel Repetition.
What is access to the best journalists, essayists, critics, novelists, and poets every month for only $25.99/year?
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“Night then—we were rolled up together like embryos in strange sheets—was another world. Dormitories, embryos in beds, craving a womb.” —Mariella Mehr
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“In the glow of candlelight or the compassion of a certain kind of attention, all enter equally into the sacred.”
Nicole Krauss on Caravaggio and Georges de la Tour.
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“The day was fair. The red was idle there, / unfixed, unpredicated, hanging around / behind the sign at the scene of the accident.”
From a manuscript in progress by Jeff Dolven.
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“Pierson walks me through the kind of workplace you’re supposed to envy. She shows me an impressive model of the Golden Gate Bridge made out of soda cans as well as an ugly couch
whose significance I don’t understand.” — Dennis Cass
“He is as patriotic an American as there can be, and you gentlemen belong with the Alien and Sedition Acts, and you are the nonpatriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.” —Paul Robeson
24.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“He seemed to squeeze his rival, then whisked him from the ring like a dancer leading his partner across a ballroom. Like most sumo matches, it was over in a matter of seconds.”
@viajoshhunt.bsky.social reports on the cultural politics of sumo wrestling.
“For a long time, the tech industry liked to think of itself as a meritocracy: it rewarded qualities like intelligence, competence, and expertise. But all that barely matters anymore.”
Sam Kriss reports on the next generation of AI technologists.
“Netscape is famous for fun. After it was bought by the despised monolith America Online, the web browser lost its indie charm, but my expectations are still high.”
Dennis Cass on the promises of Silicon Valley (July 2000).
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“Living in Rome last year, we saw a lot of Caravaggio, and even when we didn’t, we felt him near, charismatic and directing our attention toward the light.” —Nicole Krauss
23.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“It all started before I turned one, when Dad abandoned Mom and me. A blessing in disguise for her, since she won their Winnebago in the settlement and was free to pursue her heart’s desire: professional show-dog-handling.”— Andrew Norman Wilson
23.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“It’s totally fine that he spends long nights at his kitchen table, subsisting on beer and pastrami while he rolls the dice. He’s now a witness to sports history.”
Dan Piepenbring on Robert Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
