madeline leung coleman

this week in THE CRITICS newsletter @NYMag, some oscars counterprogramming: i spoke to @JDavidsonNYC about the met's new production of a five-hour wagner opera. i WILL be going

"There has always been infighting among Iranians in the diaspora. What has changed is more atmospheric: the speed of polarization, the way people whose politics you thought you knew have arrived at positions you did not see coming" nymag.com/intelligencer/…

@MacherM you're gonna need a cold plunge stat

My cortisol levels just spiked. "Local chainlet Bathhouse, which has heated some of its pools with the heat generated by bitcoin mining, calls itself 'an oasis to be fundamentally human.'"

i wrote about optimized bathhouses and that sauna festival in domino park curbed.com/article/cultur…

I wrote about pilates, the workout that will strengthen your core and raise your hackles @NYMag thecut.com/article/pilate…

“The world is dumber, and we all know it,” Lane Brown writes. It’s not just that children have been bombing their standardized tests or that more than a quarter of U.S. adults now read at the lowest proficiency level. It’s also that in nearly all aspects of life, we’re opting for routines, entertainment, and entire belief systems that ask less and less of our brains. For our Cover Story, Brown writes about our recent cognitive diminishment — and proposes a counter-intuitive theory of what’s causing it: nymag.visitlink.me/VEMvwP

i wrote about cuomo's AI slop for @NYMag's big dummy issue :) vulture.com/article/dumbes…

“I hate all these stories about Condé Nast,” New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells writer Madeline Leung Coleman. “It implies that everybody was an idiot who wanted to fly the Concorde and eat caviar.’ vulture.com/article/susan-…

My profile of Susan Orlean @nymag vulture.com/article/susan-…

"I hate all these stories about Condé Nast! It implies that everybody was an idiot who wanted to fly the Concorde and eat caviar." I profiled Susan Orlean, whose first memoir, Joyride, is out today @NYMag

@harmancipants we need their Perspective

@bmluse 💝

STILL one of the best work/ creative/ collaborative experiences of my entire life, truly! ❤️

@nopecon @NYMag RAN to Angelica for this one

@madelesque @NYMag thank you for your service

@ezwrites tysm 🙏

@madelesque It still makes me boil with rage reading it. This story was so good and so meaningful to all of us who love our animals so much and just want to do what’s best for them.

@ezwrites she was amazing!! that vet, however

@MikeIsaac @NYMag i know how you feel - now i can't work for the rest of the year... (thank you!!)

@madelesque @NYMag this took me out. great piece. now i cant work for the rest of the day though

I wrote about the part of your pet's life no one wants to think about: the end. On big love, long illness, & facing death for @NYMag's series on the ethics of owning animals thecut.com/article/when-i…

@BilgeEbiri @e_alexjung the biggest question of all

@e_alexjung I realize I should just read the piece, but...where was the husband during all this??!?

these people are among us thecut.com/article/pets-d…

Read our whole @NYMag package on pet ethics here, complete with bonkers gonzo brilliant pics by Charlie Engman thecut.com/tags/pet-ethic…