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Sarah Wambold & Rem Moore: Only Loss
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‘Society’s monomaniacal fixation on female thinness isn’t a distant abstraction, something to be pulled apart by academics in women’s studies classrooms or leveraged for traffic in shallow “body-positive” listicles … It is a constant, pervasive taint that warps every woman’s life.’
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
If you tend to blame celebrity culture run amok for our current national woes, you might find some poetry in this week’s news that Interview would fold, bankrupt, just short of its fiftieth year—mired in lawsuits over unpaid work and rampant infighting. But mostly it’s just a bummer, like hearing about an East Village punk den shutting its doors—ev... See more
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
Petrini didn’t simply write a sharply worded op-ed about the corruptive forces of McDonald’s, he instead promoted an appealing new relationship with food that would make fast food seem self-evidently vulgar. “Those who suffer for others do more damage to humanity than those who enjoy themselves,” Petrini explained.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Megan Karp on Substack
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Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
