Perhaps it’s a good time for etymology, @MerriamWebster. Yes, I think that would be “TERRIFIC!” nytimes.com/live/2026/03/3…
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Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82 tinyurl.com/3yhzx5va Glen Baxter, the Leeds-born artist whose deadpan ink drawings made absurdism look easy and pretension look ridiculous, has died. #glenbaxter @FlowersGallery @Matthew_Flowers
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RIP Glen Baxter. It was a pleasure to share your Universe.
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“We thought we knew [J.M.W. Turner and John Constable],” Jenny Uglow writes. “But how wrong we were. Far from being familiar or reverential, the Tate show...is a revelation.” go.nybooks.com/47lsEEm
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“You know who I imagine? The narrator. I imagine the narrator as an actual reader, reading what I’ve written and commenting to me about the voice and point of view.” newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…
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“Because it would be rude not to, I suppose; because she’ll give you hell if you don’t; and because the poems keep collaring you and refusing to shut up until you listen.”
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Some is on its way. “Right now, why on earth should you be reading Lang, when there are so many other criers—more recent, more urgent, less privileged and less eccentric—competing for your custom?” Anthony Lane writes. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
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“I think in fictional terms—memory transmuted by observation and experience.”
The Paris Review@parisreview
“I had to be reminded about the difference, all the time, between lyricism and sentimentality.” —Mary Lee Settle buff.ly/wTZ1lFn
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“like a powerlifter hoisting a Magic 8 Ball . . .”—@AlexandraJacobs nytimes.com/2026/03/29/boo…
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just saw a series of stupid tweets on what drives this dynamic. i encourage you to not read twitter people who know very little about menswear and instead pick up @wdavidmarx's book amatora, which is about how japan became interested in different variations of US style
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there's a pretty big community of people in japan who admire US style, including "corn culture" aesthetics
Bart Bass@BassBart86225
Why do I feel like this entire US-Japan mutual admiration story is just made up and both sides are stacking bullshit for engagement Next time I open this app it’s gonna be “did you know the Japanese are actually obsessed with Nebraskan corn-culture?!?” Like stfu no they’re not
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“A.I. companies have all but given up on self-regulation, which was never going to work anyway. A.I. safety, A.I. alignment, and A.I. governance have all left the building.”—Jill Lepore newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Happy opening day, this is the best thing ever written about baseball and one of my favorite essays of all time
mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giamatt…
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"In Italy, age is an asset."
Isa Miranda and Katharine Hepburn, Summertime (1955). Directed by David Lean #botd 🎬
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For the Keepers file: “Earth has not anything to show more fair than the crust on a chicken potpie.”
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“Here is the land of blur.”—Anthony Lane newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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“No one arouses suspicion by walking into their therapist’s office.”
Jesse Barron@_jessebarron
Three more days to read this online at @GrantaMag before it slinks back into its paywall cave—
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