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Author: Amber A’Lee Frost

Columns

Imagine Dragons
September 05, 2017
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I say, shut up, the lot of you.

The Dog Delusion
September 01, 2017
I just wonder if there’s something dangerous about championing a dependent, hierarchical relationship as an ideal realization of love or friendship.

Whitewash
August 31, 2017
Like a recumbent sloth jolted into a panicked flight response, David Brooks has belatedly noticed the rancid politics of right-wing racial confrontation.

Finger-Lickin’ Lulz
August 30, 2017
KFC’s creepy virtual-reality publicity stunt is but a hint of things to come in the exciting world of late capitalism’s cyberpunk dystopia.

General McMaster and the Miniskirts
August 24, 2017
It was the miniskirts that did it. For many long months of Donald Trump’s unhinged presidency, his collection of stern-faced generals had been begging to send more troops into Afghanistan to stop hemorrhaging losses to the ascendant Taliban. The president did not want to do ...

Élite Politesse
August 23, 2017
When, in 2012, the copy editor Mary Norris took to The New Yorker’s website to defend its comma usage against the charge that it was “nutty,” a new era in the history of the magazine’s style was inaugurated. Norris was suddenly impossible to escape, extemporizing on ...