Adam Sternbergh
@sternbergh.bsky.social
culture editor, NYTimes Opinion
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
old enough to remember when a $100 million total contract was considered unthinkable
we’re not that far away from the first $100 million per season player
we’re not that far away from the first $100 million per season player
I find I’m not really on anyone’s side tonight.
I think Tucker makes sense for the Dodgers. OF was their weakness.
But I think that $60 M valuation is absurd.
I don’t think this deal leads to a longer labour stoppage than we should have expected anyways.
I think Tucker makes sense for the Dodgers. OF was their weakness.
But I think that $60 M valuation is absurd.
I don’t think this deal leads to a longer labour stoppage than we should have expected anyways.
January 16, 2026 at 4:31 AM
old enough to remember when a $100 million total contract was considered unthinkable
we’re not that far away from the first $100 million per season player
we’re not that far away from the first $100 million per season player
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The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
January 16, 2026 at 12:53 AM
The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
Vlad Guerrero thinking about how he could have signed a two year, $180 million contract with the dodgers
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Vlad Guerrero thinking about how he could have signed a two year, $180 million contract with the dodgers
all of this reminds me of the time I won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in a back room poker game that’s right I’m a Pulitzer Prize winner that’s me
January 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
all of this reminds me of the time I won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in a back room poker game that’s right I’m a Pulitzer Prize winner that’s me
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Marlins will enter the season with around a $60 million payroll, Dodgers' 6-hole hitter Kyle Tucker with be making $60 million dollars lol
January 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Marlins will enter the season with around a $60 million payroll, Dodgers' 6-hole hitter Kyle Tucker with be making $60 million dollars lol
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METS: Here's a ton of money for three years
BLUE JAYS: Here's a lot of money for seven years
DODGERS:
KYLE TUCKER: This is so hard
DODGERS:
KYLE TUCKER: But I'm gonna have to go with the Dodgers
BLUE JAYS: Here's a lot of money for seven years
DODGERS:
KYLE TUCKER: This is so hard
DODGERS:
KYLE TUCKER: But I'm gonna have to go with the Dodgers
January 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
METS: Here's a ton of money for three years
BLUE JAYS: Here's a lot of money for seven years
DODGERS:
KYLE TUCKER: This is so hard
DODGERS:
KYLE TUCKER: But I'm gonna have to go with the Dodgers
BLUE JAYS: Here's a lot of money for seven years
DODGERS:
KYLE TUCKER: This is so hard
DODGERS:
KYLE TUCKER: But I'm gonna have to go with the Dodgers
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better than anything on SNL in the last five years
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
better than anything on SNL in the last five years
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So, this was very fun: The @latimes.com put together a definitive list of the 101 best Los Angeles movies. You can read my thoughts on Barton Fink, Devil in a Blue Dress, Die Hard, Inherent Vice, Killer of Sheep, Safe and A Woman Under the Influence here:
The 101 best Los Angeles movies
Our list of the 101 best Los Angeles movies is as sprawling as the city, and includes "Chinatown," "Clueless," "Blade Runner," "Mulholland Drive," "Heat," "Pulp Fiction," "The Big Lebowski" and "La La...
www.latimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
So, this was very fun: The @latimes.com put together a definitive list of the 101 best Los Angeles movies. You can read my thoughts on Barton Fink, Devil in a Blue Dress, Die Hard, Inherent Vice, Killer of Sheep, Safe and A Woman Under the Influence here:
have not seen the film yet but this is a bang up review from a critic uniquely situated to write it
January 15, 2026 at 4:21 PM
have not seen the film yet but this is a bang up review from a critic uniquely situated to write it
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An outstanding and compulsively readable history. What I loved most was the smaller portraits of key women who were restricted to the periphery in past books about this era, e.g., Marcia Lucas, Melissa Mathison, Eleanor Coppola. Essential reading for movie lovers.
celadonbooks.com/book/the-las...
celadonbooks.com/book/the-las...
The Last Kings of Hollywood - Celadon Books
The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries—Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg—revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while riski...
celadonbooks.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
An outstanding and compulsively readable history. What I loved most was the smaller portraits of key women who were restricted to the periphery in past books about this era, e.g., Marcia Lucas, Melissa Mathison, Eleanor Coppola. Essential reading for movie lovers.
celadonbooks.com/book/the-las...
celadonbooks.com/book/the-las...
put this whole speech on a yard sign
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
put this whole speech on a yard sign
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funniest running bit on twitter is "gentle r kikuo johnson new yorker cover drives idw and tpot types insane trying to interpret it"
January 15, 2026 at 1:44 PM
funniest running bit on twitter is "gentle r kikuo johnson new yorker cover drives idw and tpot types insane trying to interpret it"
🎶 Friday, Friday
Gonna have a Whiskey Friday
Gonna drink some whiskey on the newscast, newscast 🎶
Gonna have a Whiskey Friday
Gonna drink some whiskey on the newscast, newscast 🎶
January 15, 2026 at 3:05 AM
🎶 Friday, Friday
Gonna have a Whiskey Friday
Gonna drink some whiskey on the newscast, newscast 🎶
Gonna have a Whiskey Friday
Gonna drink some whiskey on the newscast, newscast 🎶
good things are happening
Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc
January 14, 2026 at 10:36 PM
good things are happening
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Excited to share, well, not sure i can yet call them *thoughts* exactly, but if you happen to be near Cambridge next week, please come by - www.film.cam.ac.uk/events/himes...
“Prof James Schamus: Himes, Hitchcock and Noir’s Racialized Borders” » Cambridge Film & Screen
Noir scholarship inevitably solicits questions of genre and canon formation; it invokes the idea of genre even as it appears to fail or to elude generic solidity. This failure is troubled, perhaps eve...
www.film.cam.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Excited to share, well, not sure i can yet call them *thoughts* exactly, but if you happen to be near Cambridge next week, please come by - www.film.cam.ac.uk/events/himes...
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. @mattbelloni.bsky.social’s brilliant bloodsport on the Globes:
January 13, 2026 at 1:49 PM
. @mattbelloni.bsky.social’s brilliant bloodsport on the Globes:
since we're (sort of) talking about influential newspaper comic strips (though not that one in particular) today, here are five newspaper comic strips I read most voraciously and which had the biggest impact on me growing up
5. Shoe
4. Peanuts
3. Bloom County
2. Calvin and Hobbes
1. The Far Side
5. Shoe
4. Peanuts
3. Bloom County
2. Calvin and Hobbes
1. The Far Side
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
since we're (sort of) talking about influential newspaper comic strips (though not that one in particular) today, here are five newspaper comic strips I read most voraciously and which had the biggest impact on me growing up
5. Shoe
4. Peanuts
3. Bloom County
2. Calvin and Hobbes
1. The Far Side
5. Shoe
4. Peanuts
3. Bloom County
2. Calvin and Hobbes
1. The Far Side
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As we've had another influx of new subscribers the last couple of weeks, thought I would recirculate this list of some of the TV and pop culture accounts I like to follow on here: go.bsky.app/QGgkZaB
January 13, 2026 at 5:16 PM
As we've had another influx of new subscribers the last couple of weeks, thought I would recirculate this list of some of the TV and pop culture accounts I like to follow on here: go.bsky.app/QGgkZaB
seems fitting that "eric adams crypto rugpull" has roughly the same place in the current scandals hierarchy as "eric adams incumbent candidate" had in polling for new york city mayor
January 13, 2026 at 4:40 PM
seems fitting that "eric adams crypto rugpull" has roughly the same place in the current scandals hierarchy as "eric adams incumbent candidate" had in polling for new york city mayor
7 train to Secaucus when
Governor Hochul will announce an extension of the Second Avenue Subway to 125th and Broadway in her State of the State address on Tuesday. buff.ly/2qxRQs6
Westward Ho! Hochul Proposes to Extend Second Ave. Subway Along 125th Street to Broadway - Streetsblog New York City
The next step for the Second Avenue Subway is west across 125th Street to Broadway, Gov. Hochul will announce Tuesday.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:39 PM
7 train to Secaucus when
was waiting for the perfect skeet on this and here it is
Let your investors be your jesters at the rugpull of success
incredible if true
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 AM
was waiting for the perfect skeet on this and here it is
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Let your investors be your jesters at the rugpull of success
January 13, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Let your investors be your jesters at the rugpull of success
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This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime.
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d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
January 13, 2026 at 12:12 AM
This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...