Month: January 2023

The show is a dumb, male-centered fantasy about grown-ass men who act like teenage boys. So why can’t I stop watching it? By P.E. Moskowitz January 23, 2023 My friend Callie was having a bad day. She texted me that she was stressed with job stuff, feeling down on herself, tucking herself into a corner
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The 2023 PEN American Literary Award Longlists have been announced! This year’s awards will confer $350,000 to more than 100 writers and translators in eleven different categories that include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, literature in translation, and more. The winners will be announced at the Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2nd at The Town
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Long winter nights are for reading! Our February issue contains great new fiction from Sonora Jha, Tessa Bailey and Stephen Graham Jones, plus the best books for Black History Month and more. In upcoming issues, keep an eye out for our Writers to Watch list, highlights in inspirational fiction and outstanding new memoirs.
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Drake, Oliver El-Khatib and more explain how last weekend’s Apollo shows were just one phase in curating the best radio show out. By Edwin STATS Houghton Photography by Flo Ngala January 23, 2023 Drake’s OVO / Sound 42 crew: Oliver El-Khatib, Nyan King, Kid Masterpiece, Noel Cadastre, G0home Roger, Morgan Lieberthal, Geoff “Gee Spin” Gamere,
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From pastrami palaces to Christmas strongholds, some of New York’s most iconically New York (and not necessarily most fashionable) spots are buzzing. By Jason Diamond January 23, 2023 Photograph: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte Easily the strangest thing I did this holiday season was spending a night hanging out in the roped-off front yard of
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Leslie Knope and April Ludgate are together again! While hosting NBC’s Saturday Night Live for the first time, The White Lotus‘ Aubrey Plaza delighted fans further by having a surprise reunion with her Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler, a former SNL cast member. On the Jan. 21 episode, the actresses played their former sitcom roles together in a sketch during Weekend Update. “Everybody should get involved
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Is the 21st century “an epoch in which games and play are the model for how we interact with culture and each other”? Designer and professor Eric Zimmerman thinks so. At the very least, games can provide an extraordinarily useful way to learn by doing. In The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and
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Lisa Marie Presley‘s celebration of life at Graceland took place today, as her family members, friends and countless Elvis Presley fans gathered to honor her. Priscilla Presley arrived with her family, including son Navarone Garibaldi, daughter Riley Keough and Lisa Marie’s ex-husband, Michael Lockwood. It’s unclear if Lisa’s daughters Harper and Finley were in attendance
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For their entire lives, Penny and Tate have orbited each other reluctantly. Since before Penny and Tate were born, their moms, Lottie and Anna, have been attached at the hip, and this permanent package deal means constant, unwanted proximity for the two daughters. See, Penny and Tate are not friends. They’re also not not friends.
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