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Life and death at Balthazar

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Sam Bankman-Fried : drip or drown. (FTX/YouTube).


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"Style."

The death of Silicon Valley style

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Osamu Dazai, BookTok's problematic fave.

on Osamu Dazai’s modernist novel No Longer Human, and his newfound English-language fame as a TikTok author.

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Dead Novelists Society

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Stop soiling yourself.

on what the resurgence of the houseplant says about how we want to live, and what we need to survive.

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Against houseplants

Elon Musk's unsuccessful Twitter poll. (Twitter)

Elon Musk Twitter poll.

Instagram brings back away statuses.

helms our dispatch, recapping the latest news in digital culture. This week: Elon Musk’s latest Twitter meltdown, Instagram’s new Notes feature, and Avatar.

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Musk meltdown

The Ins and Outs

Our 2023 forecast.

share our predictions for the year ahead.

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Early 20th-century reality tv.

on Mapp and Lucia, a treasured comfort program.

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The Real Housewives of Tilling

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White Noise tries to do too much.

reviews Noah Baumbach’s Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise.


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Baumbach’s disaster (movie)

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She Said

A review.

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All the things She Said

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