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Why we can’t stop talking about age gaps

There’s something about age gaps right now. They’re all over the place. The Idea of You, out on Amazon Prime this week, features Anne Hathaway...

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Harvey Weinstein’s overturned conviction, explained by a lawyer

For the past seven years, Harvey Weinstein has been the bogeyman of popular culture. His depravity seems to the public to be so established that other...

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The AI grift that can literally poison you

Six months ago, I spoke with a man named Elan Trybuch about a problem he was seeing online. He kept coming across different ebooks about mushroom...

29.04.2024 10

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Taylor Swift seems sick of being everyone’s best friend

Taylor Swift has spent the past two years on top of the world. Her worldwide Eras tour is the highest-grossing music tour of all time. It’s made...

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Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made. 

16.04.2024 20

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O.J. Simpson’s story is built on America’s national sins

The news of O.J. Simpson’s death — of cancer at the age of 76 — falls uneasily. O.J. Simpson is an uneasy figure. Thinking of him, you think of...

11.04.2024 9

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The Western visuals of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, decoded

Of all the pop stars currently working in America, Beyoncé is undoubtedly the most visually sophisticated. Every new album comes with a lush,...

07.04.2024 10

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The Talented Mr. Ripley is a perfect striver gothic. The Netflix adaptation is lifeless.

First, the bad news: Netflix’s new show Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s immortal novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, is a snooze. It’s shot...

06.04.2024 10

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The story of Kate Middleton’s disappearance is haunted by Meghan Markle

21.03.2024 5

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The Kate Middleton mystery, explained

The world seems to be tuned into where exactly Princess Kate is. On March 18, 2024, after weeks of questions from the public, TMZ published footage of...

21.03.2024 3

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Why the **** does everyone swear all the ******* time?

14.03.2024 10

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Who is the British royal family willing to protect?

Have you heard the news? Princess Catherine of Wales, formerly Kate Middleton, seems to be missing. Kate hasn’t been seen in public since several...

14.03.2024 10

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The profound weirdness of Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar win — and the category he won

Robert Downey, Jr. just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. “I would like to thank my...

11.03.2024 10

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The conspiracy theories about Kate Middleton’s disappearance, explained 

Princess Kate, formerly Kate Middleton, one day to become Catherine, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom, is missing. Sort of. Kate, Princess of Wales...

01.03.2024 10

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How Sarah J. Maas became romantasy’s reigning queen

As BookTok goes, so goes publishing. The community of TikTokers who make videos about their favorite books is one of the only forces actively driving...

27.02.2024 7

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Jon Stewart is as funny as ever. But the world has changed around him.

Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show has been, on the metrics, a success. According to Comedy Central, his first episode back on February 12 was...

19.02.2024 6

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In The Book of Love, Kelly Link shows that the best romances are ghost stories too

The Book of Love , Kelly Link’s first novel, is a love story, yes. It’s also a ghost story, and a coming-of-age story, and a portrait of a small...

15.02.2024 20

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What the 5 love languages get right, and what they get very wrong

As Meyers-Briggs quizzes are to corporate bonding retreats, love languages are to Hinge profiles. They show up again and again on dating sites, and on...

14.02.2024 20

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How Britney Spears explains Taylor Swift

09.02.2024 5

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Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It is a witty, overstuffed campus satire

Kiley Reid emerged on the literary scene at the end of 2019, when her debut novel Such a Fun Age released in a crescendo of buzz. The story of a...

30.01.2024 10

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How the internet built a conspiracy around a new spy flick, a debut novel, and Taylor Swift

The internet has gone into a frenzy over Argylle, a forthcoming spy movie, and its supposed source material, a yet-to-be-published novel by one Elly...

23.01.2024 9

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The fight over plagiarism is the harbinger of a messy new era

14.01.2024 10

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The year of Ozempic bodies and Barbie Botox

21.12.2023 6

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The very best books of 2023

20.12.2023 9

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Doctor Who’s big twist betrayed the show’s oldest rule

13.12.2023 6

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In American Fiction, a Black writer who “doesn’t see race” pens a race novel

Early on in American Fiction, a deceptively biting and warmly funny new satire, a writer (played by Jeffrey Wright in a career-crowning performance)...

11.12.2023 5

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Poor Things stars Emma Stone as a horny Frankenstein’s monster coming of age

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is famous for making strange and chilly movies: 2016’s eerie dramedy The Lobster ; 2018’s The Favourite , a...

08.12.2023 2

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Rizz, the word of the year, explained

We aged, we decrepit, we ancients of the internet, we people over 30, hear my word and shudder, for the hour of our obsolescence is at hand. Oxford...

05.12.2023 5

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Leave the World Behind is a slick and stylish apocalyptic thriller

When the end of the world comes, will we know it for what it is? In Leave the World Behind, the slick and stylish new Netflix thriller directed by Sam...

20.11.2023 2

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Professional raconteur Fran Lebowitz thinks art should be useless

Does anyone have it figured out as well as Fran Lebowitz? She spent the 1970s hanging out with Andy Warhol and writing two books that made her the...

19.10.2023 3

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The third season of Starstruck isn’t a romcom anymore

The third and final season of Starstruck, Rose Matefeo’s fizzy HBO romcom, is different from the other two. It’s darker and sadder and messier. It...

17.10.2023 4

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The Eras concert movie is Taylor Swift leveling up

Taylor Swift has finally reached her saturation point. You can see that she’s been aiming for this kind of fame since her first single, “Tim...

12.10.2023 2

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The cinematic glory of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s game-day date

Taylor Swift is a master of weaving her public-facing love life, her star image, and her art together, and she’s in the middle of an incredible...

25.09.2023 2

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The cinematic glory of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s game-day date

Taylor Swift is a master of weaving her public-facing love life, her star image, and her art together, and she’s in the middle of an incredible...

25.09.2023 2

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The big Elon Musk biography asks all the wrong questions

There’s a recurring phrase in Walter Isaacson’s new biography Elon Musk . Certain things, Isaacson writes again and again in his dense and...

14.09.2023 30

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How Hulu’s The Other Black Girl uses style to frame Black women’s ambition

Hulu’s The Other Black Girl , premiering September 13, is a show whose themes are inextricably tied to its styling. Its main characters drift...

13.09.2023 10

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The book of the year so far is Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds

As I read Lauren Groff’s astoundingly good new novel The Vaster Wilds , I had a visceral flashback to being 8 years old and reading the...

12.09.2023 2

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The sincerity and rage of Olivia Rodrigo

As Olivia Rodrigo promoted her sophomore album Guts, she treaded a careful line. On the one hand: She was grateful and happy for the many successes...

08.09.2023 40

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100 years of fearing robots

07.09.2023 1

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