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Nepal celebrates Kukur Tihar, a festival honoring dogs, on November 8
Just two weeks away, dogs will be adorned with flower garlands, given red tika and offered special food to celebrate their loyalty and companionship
Rachel Cusk on ‘Life of M’ nytimes.com/2026/08/20/style…
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ty, @emmymrtin , for chronicling the heated rivalry shipping community AI meltdown
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How A.I. Books Sneak Their Way Into Stores nytimes.com/2026/07/28/books…
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This book was the most fun I had in June— it was unforgettable and I loved it and there is no one whose reading of it I would have appreciated more than Dayna’s TBH. Fabulous stuff. 🖤
I reviewed Emily Eakin’s “The Frenchmen”—a memoir / intellectual history / group biography of Althusser, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, Deleuze, Guattati, Derrida, and De Man—for the @NewYorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Colson Whitehead’s “Cool Machine” is out today. For a profile last month in @NewYorker, we talked about his career, family life, and being a driven slacker: “I’m a really lazy bitch, but I have a punitive superego. The two go together.”
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Alison Leiby’s brand of comedy involves joking about serious things, (like her near death after surgery at 19, having an abortion), and taking trivial things extremely seriously. But her most polarizing material is about how she doesn’t want kids shorturl.at/CAsXh
Tech reporter @kashhill found an A.I. slop biography -- of her. It was full of errors about her morning coffee ritual and how she fell in love with her husband nytimes.com/2026/07/16/techn…
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From New York Times editor Joe Kahn’s memo to staffers: “We will mount a full defense of our staff, of course. We will also fight to ensure that this blatant effort to suppress coverage of a matter clearly in the public interest in no way impedes accountability reporting of this or any other administration.
We expect to prevail. We have the best legal team in the business.”
Why are the characters in so many new novels eating each other? One reason: women are angry. I wrote about how cannibalism has become a potent metaphor for female rage.
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the millions is still on editorial hiatus, but the lists endure—here are 130+ anticipation-worthy summer reads (personally most excited about the emily eakin, meaghan beatley, shiva naipaul, & brian dillon) themillions.com/2026/07/the-…
Searching for a quote about female rage from an interview in my Google docs and couldn't remember what I had named the doc...and finding that so many of my Google docs include the phrase female rage.
People got mad that JD Vance's new memoir, "Communion," shared a title with the pioneering feminist writer bell hooks's book, "Communion." So readers and booksellers started a campaign to get bell hooks onto the best-seller list this month. It worked. shorturl.at/RK1th
Simon & Schuster: "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" has sold more than 300,000 copies in it's first week on sale -- the biggest week one sales of any hardcover nonfiction book so far this year. Congrats on an epic book @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan
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Your favorite Pakistani dystopian writer is included in this roundup of feminist sci-fi novelists portraying gender in the future
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“Mona Lisa wasn’t alive when she became famous—but I am,” Sue Tilley said of the interest in the nude portraits Lucian Freud made of her. One sold for $39 million Wednesday at Sotheby’s. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3Swfq2W
