9 Best Articles in 2020
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Something is wrong on the internet
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20+ min read · 902 saves · From 2017 · I’m James Bridle. I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t…
New Statesman
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
New Statesman
8 min read · 417 saves · Sep 22nd · Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is…
Guardian Books
Thirty books to help us understand the world in 2020
Guardian Books
20+ min read · 416 saves · Oct 18th · The climate crisis, gender, populism, big tech, pandemics, race… our experts recommend titles to illuminate the issues of the day
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8:46 - Dave Chappelle
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394 saves · Jun 11th · From Dave: Normally I wouldn't show you something so unrefined, I hope you understand To find out more about how you can support the…
GQ Magazine
The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief
GQ Magazine
2 min read · 342 saves · 2019-03-01 · Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief…
The New Yorker
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions
The New Yorker
330 saves · 2019-01-20 · Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His…
The Cut
The Poison of Male Incivility
The Cut
6 min read · 310 saves · Jul 24th · When a woman dares respond to it, she’s seen as “disruptive.”
The Atlantic
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
The Atlantic
7 min read · 308 saves · Jul 27th · Derek Thompson · Companies are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.
The Pudding
The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
The Pudding
7 min read · 290 saves · Jul 16th · An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.
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Thirty books to help us understand the world in 2020
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20+ min read · 416 saves · Oct 18th · The climate crisis, gender, populism, big tech, pandemics, race… our experts recommend titles to illuminate the issues of the day
The New Yorker
Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking
The New Yorker
8 min read · 116 saves · Oct 14th · The idea of what a documentary is has shifted according to what has—and hasn’t—been possible during the past hundred years. But the artistic preoccupations…
Polygon
AOC’s record-breaking Twitch stream is the future of politics
Polygon
3 min read · 51 saves · Oct 21st · Patricia Hernandez · Young, tech-savvy, meme-literate, and accessible
Vulture
An Oral History of Requiem for a Dream
Vulture
49 saves · Oct 16th · Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 movie is the work of artists who hadn’t yet been told what they could and couldn’t do.
The Washington Post
How the 1619 Project took over 2020
The Washington Post
41 saves · Oct 13th · It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture…
Los Angeles Times
40 Black playwrights on the theater industry’s insidious racism
Los Angeles Times
20+ min read · 40 saves · Oct 14th · Radha Blank's 'Forty-Year-Old Version' on Netflix highlights racism in the theater industry. We asked 40 Black theatermakers for their stories.
The New Yorker
Who Isn’t a Sucker for a Foldout?
The New Yorker
2 min read · 31 saves · Oct 26th · Katy Waldman · The National Book Foundation’s Lisa Lucas and two fellow-jurors gather to choose the trends behind the fifty best-designed books of the year.
The Atlantic
The World is Trapped in America's Culture War
The Atlantic
8 min read · 29 saves · Oct 27th · Helen Lewis · Sharing the internet with America is like sharing your living room with a rhinoceros. It’s huge, it’s right there, and whatever it’s doing now,…
Aeon+Psyche
The Renaissance art illusion that proved everything is a matter of perspective
Aeon+Psyche
1 min read · 13 saves · Oct 27th · Once used to hide subversive messages, the Renaissance technique of anamorphosis proved everything is a matter of perspective
