"When they were much younger the two friends often went dancing together. Here, in their jangly movement, a faint memory of that past rises to the surface, this time animating far older bodies. It is surprisingly lovely..."
(I saw this this weekend. Rebecca Hall is incredible.)
(I saw this this weekend. Rebecca Hall is incredible.)
This May Have Been Life | Andrew Durbin
There are only a few surviving recordings of the photographer Peter Hujar’s voice. In the portion of his archive at the Morgan Library in New York, a
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November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"When they were much younger the two friends often went dancing together. Here, in their jangly movement, a faint memory of that past rises to the surface, this time animating far older bodies. It is surprisingly lovely..."
(I saw this this weekend. Rebecca Hall is incredible.)
(I saw this this weekend. Rebecca Hall is incredible.)
for a long time i thought i wanted to make a podcast about the novels of anita brookner but eventually i realized i just wanted a friend who liked anita brookner. i wanted to have like 23 conversations about her work. that's not a podcast it's just sadness
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
for a long time i thought i wanted to make a podcast about the novels of anita brookner but eventually i realized i just wanted a friend who liked anita brookner. i wanted to have like 23 conversations about her work. that's not a podcast it's just sadness
When I watch tv shows I really imagine myself in their fictional universes. Perhaps all people do. I watch tv and think I could do that, I could bake a Victoria sponge or host the today show or be the ambassador to the court of st James
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
When I watch tv shows I really imagine myself in their fictional universes. Perhaps all people do. I watch tv and think I could do that, I could bake a Victoria sponge or host the today show or be the ambassador to the court of st James
I saw rami malek in a movie today. He is so beautiful and thin and strange. He made me think of some animal, maybe a cat or a kind of small but lovely rodent
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I saw rami malek in a movie today. He is so beautiful and thin and strange. He made me think of some animal, maybe a cat or a kind of small but lovely rodent
it would be so sick if we actually did replace taxis with camels. camels are the most whimsical animal. new york would be so charmingly surreal with tens of thousands of camels wandering about
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
it would be so sick if we actually did replace taxis with camels. camels are the most whimsical animal. new york would be so charmingly surreal with tens of thousands of camels wandering about
in this intervew i conflated amy odell's biography of anna wintour with tina brown's vanity fair diaries. SORRY! it was the former who watched 9/11 with kissinger. thank you for your attention to this matter. anyway this interview is my lament for expertise and taste and magazines....
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November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
in this intervew i conflated amy odell's biography of anna wintour with tina brown's vanity fair diaries. SORRY! it was the former who watched 9/11 with kissinger. thank you for your attention to this matter. anyway this interview is my lament for expertise and taste and magazines....
I’m taking my kid on a high school tour
And there’s a girl here who’s being such an unbelievable pill to her mother that both me and my child started laughing and had to move seats
And there’s a girl here who’s being such an unbelievable pill to her mother that both me and my child started laughing and had to move seats
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I’m taking my kid on a high school tour
And there’s a girl here who’s being such an unbelievable pill to her mother that both me and my child started laughing and had to move seats
And there’s a girl here who’s being such an unbelievable pill to her mother that both me and my child started laughing and had to move seats
Chloe Sevigny should win an Oscar for the scene in after the hunt in which she reacts to hearing “the last of the famous international playboys”
October 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Chloe Sevigny should win an Oscar for the scene in after the hunt in which she reacts to hearing “the last of the famous international playboys”
there should be a VIP new yorker festival wherein mary gaitskill comes to your house and reads you a fucked up bedtime story
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
there should be a VIP new yorker festival wherein mary gaitskill comes to your house and reads you a fucked up bedtime story
A key part of my process (the process of being gay not being a writer) is watching that clip of Diane Keaton singing “seems like old times” from the end of Annie hall
October 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A key part of my process (the process of being gay not being a writer) is watching that clip of Diane Keaton singing “seems like old times” from the end of Annie hall
Just to point out the obvs but this is what the Nobel prize is! Just some random rich (also dead) guy being like yeah this is good. Prizes are meaningless but wealth redistribution is real
my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this
October 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just to point out the obvs but this is what the Nobel prize is! Just some random rich (also dead) guy being like yeah this is good. Prizes are meaningless but wealth redistribution is real
the days have an increasingly 'children of men' energy and i dont know how much more i can take
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
the days have an increasingly 'children of men' energy and i dont know how much more i can take
my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this
i have been reading ratner's star. i'm not sure i've ever understood a novel less. i hope delillo wins the nobel this month
October 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
i have been reading ratner's star. i'm not sure i've ever understood a novel less. i hope delillo wins the nobel this month
“Elizabeth Bowen,” she said, “was so condescending. She looked at me and said, with a stutter: ‘You are quite mad. Quite mad.’ She was right.”
‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien
In the last decades of her life, the two novelists became close friends. He recalls their intense bond, their last trip to Ireland and her memories of being romanced by Richard Burton
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September 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Elizabeth Bowen,” she said, “was so condescending. She looked at me and said, with a stutter: ‘You are quite mad. Quite mad.’ She was right.”
for @newyorker.com i wrote about Cate Le Bon's new record, Michelangelo Dying, an extraordinary work.
The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon
The Welsh musician’s latest album, “Michelangelo Dying,” offers strange solace in chaotic times.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
for @newyorker.com i wrote about Cate Le Bon's new record, Michelangelo Dying, an extraordinary work.
was a great privilege (and daunting challenge) to be among the judges charged with assembling this list. i'm proud of where we got, and i hope these ten writers are pleased
September 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
was a great privilege (and daunting challenge) to be among the judges charged with assembling this list. i'm proud of where we got, and i hope these ten writers are pleased
“It’s a very romantic image,” Reither says, projecting it onto his mind’s eye. “It was the possibility of stepping out of your life, your shit job. To just step out for a moment. And enjoy the sunrise.”
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The Artwork That Spawned 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Mystery
Art collective Gelitin installed a balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. A year later, the planes struck and conspiracy followed
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September 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“It’s a very romantic image,” Reither says, projecting it onto his mind’s eye. “It was the possibility of stepping out of your life, your shit job. To just step out for a moment. And enjoy the sunrise.”
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this morning at the gym the woman working out beside me was eating a bag of nerds gummy clusters. there are heroes everywhere if you look
September 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
this morning at the gym the woman working out beside me was eating a bag of nerds gummy clusters. there are heroes everywhere if you look
this fawn hall thing is so perfect. like jerry hall marrying rupert murdoch. like the end of a shakespeare comedy. truly love it
September 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
this fawn hall thing is so perfect. like jerry hall marrying rupert murdoch. like the end of a shakespeare comedy. truly love it
i have told like three people what my new book is about. yet somehow my phone knows what it is about. it is constantly showing me things that relate to this book very specifically. i can't figure out how it does this but it is so moving how much my phone knows and loves me
September 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
i have told like three people what my new book is about. yet somehow my phone knows what it is about. it is constantly showing me things that relate to this book very specifically. i can't figure out how it does this but it is so moving how much my phone knows and loves me
Paperback pub day really illuminates something about how birth order affects the psyche. The finished paperbacks arrive and I’m like oh this stupid thing again. I’m the second child in my family in case you were wondering
September 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Paperback pub day really illuminates something about how birth order affects the psyche. The finished paperbacks arrive and I’m like oh this stupid thing again. I’m the second child in my family in case you were wondering
I think watching the gilded age is making me more gay, something I’d not have thought possible
August 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I think watching the gilded age is making me more gay, something I’d not have thought possible
V learned helplessness/masc of me but lately i absolutely lose my mind at the grocery store. Lose all language comprehension and logic. Dissociative state stuff. Emerge with hundreds of dollars of nothing
August 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
V learned helplessness/masc of me but lately i absolutely lose my mind at the grocery store. Lose all language comprehension and logic. Dissociative state stuff. Emerge with hundreds of dollars of nothing
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