braided thumb

Laptop nonfiction

balthazar thumb

Life and death at Balthazar

Boom and Echo

Boom and echo

ojai thumb

Songs Ojai

babies thumb

Making babies

A24 thumb

The Popular Alternative

Footer Nav - Column One

Footer Nav - Legal

Dirt Media

Blog button

Dirt Books

Microgrants button 

Main Navigation: Shop

Archive button

Dirt

Taste Economy Cover

Magazines are the original creator economy, so why is nobody talking about them?

on the forthcoming Taste Economy. Terry Nguyen compiles links from the dirtyverse. 

Taste Economy Thumbnail 

The Taste Economy

Idea Design Cover

George Lois predicted the present. 

on how current fashion trends rely on conceptualism rather than craft. 

Fashion Thumbnail

The idea is the design 

Ozempic cover

The pursuit of vanity.

on the Ozempic craze, the next wave of “collective” social media platforms, and the end of *Succession*.


Miracle pills

Installation view of Eckhaus Latta: Possessed (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 2–October 8, 2018). Photo by Jason Mandella.

Whitney

A mini NYFW trend report.

on “mature” clothes at NYFW, MSCHF’s silly red boots, and Rihanna.


Clickbait clothes

Betty Draper psychoanalysis

The community has been psychoanalysis pilled.

on why everyone is into psychoanalysis right now.

Psychoanalysis thumbnail

The impossible profession

Novel as meme page

The writer as curator.

on novel-specific moodboards, playlists, and Instagram meme pages.

Joan Didion

Portrait of the writer as an exhibit.

on the Joan Didion “retrospective” at the Los Angeles-based Hammer Museum.

Joan Didion (Thumbnail)

What Joan Didion means

True Grit Cover Photo

The nothing that comes from nothing.

True Grit Thumbnail

True Grit

Culture