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I Feel Better Now

Jake Bittle

July 11, 2019

Depressed by the burden of life under capitalism? There's an app for that!

Women Are from Venus

Nora Caplan-Bricker

July 08, 2019

In seeking to unravel it, Three Women props up a simplistic view of women and sex.

Market Values

Cody Delistraty

July 03, 2019

On a snowy, sleety evening last November, inside the auction room at Phillips on Park Avenue, Henry Highley was waiting at a lacquered podium. Potential buyers filed in slowly, closing their umbrellas, unzipping their parkas, and making their way to their seats with their ...

The Power and the Noise

Will Meyer

July 02, 2019

Damon Krukowski’s Ways of Hearing poses a compelling counternarrative to typical tech criticism.

A Fan’s Notes

Kate Wagner

June 20, 2019

In the Jon Bois era, the specious divide between sports and art can no longer stand.

End of Rand

Richard A. Greenwald

June 11, 2019

Have we witnessed the last gasp of “objectivist” piety?

The Corporate Logo Singularity

Rachel Hawley

June 07, 2019

The childlike nature of corporate branding isn’t a random trend, but part of the mindset that consumers ought to be treated like children.

San Francisco, Please Stand Up

Sophie Haigney

June 05, 2019

Everyone is obsessed with San Francisco right now. It has become a symbol, a cliché, a fable about money and technology. The moral is different depending on who you ask. A sampling of headlines from the last month in local and national news: “How San Francisco broke ...

Unpopular Content

Oscar Schwartz

May 31, 2019

Default Filename TV wants to make YouTube weird again.

Rotten Goes Rancid

Matt Hanson

May 23, 2019

John Lydon has mutated into a member of the self-satisfied whiny bourgeoise set he made a profitable career out of shocking.

In the Hands of Angry Gods

Ed Simon

May 22, 2019

Secular though I may feel that I am, I can’t escape the heat of hell.

The Netflix-Twitter Complex

Corey Atad

April 24, 2019

Lonely, confused, and horny brands are irritating enough, but Netflix accounts tip over into ugly self-righteousness.