“Widow’s Bay” Sets a High Bar for Horror Comedy

“Widow’s Bay” Sets a High Bar for Horror Comedy

A decade ago, back when Twitter was still Twitter, and writerly types gathered there to amuse one another, a Los Angeles-based screenwriter named Katie Dippold posted one of the all-time great tweets. It was “tbt,” or throwback Thursday, a weekly excuse to post a picture from one’s past. Dippold chose an image of herself sitting…

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A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike

A Trollish New Campus Novel Hates Students and Professors Alike

The novel’s main two conflicts center on the university. First, there is an ongoing existential battle being waged between the university (the purview of the academics) and the city’s wild, unstoppable greenery (the purview of the gardeners, a quasi-mystical class of stoic workers who wear wide-brimmed hats and communicate in parables and aphorisms). As a…

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EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Releases Second Futuristic Shoe Collection With Diesel

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Releases Second Futuristic Shoe Collection With Diesel

Nearly one year after their first collection, Melissa and Diesel are reuniting for the second chapter of their collaborative partnership. The second drop sees the return of three footwear styles offered in an extended size range, designed around the reimagination of Diesel’s “D” monogram, which contributes to the contemporary look of the line. Shoe styles…

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Stephen Spielberg’s Reckless, Audacious “Disclosure Day”

Stephen Spielberg’s Reckless, Audacious “Disclosure Day”

Margaret is entirely aware of what she’s doing when she pulls off these empathetic maneuvers, but she remains oblivious to how she herself is being puppeteered—when she speaks Russian or Korean, when she clucks. There’s a link between these conscious and unconscious forms of mind control, and for Spielberg Margaret’s eventual coming to consciousness is…

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Sarah Jessica Parker Leads Star-studded Fendi Baguette Campaign

Sarah Jessica Parker Leads Star-studded Fendi Baguette Campaign

ORIGINAL BAGUETTE: There’s no doubt Sarah Jessica Parker contributed to cement Fendi’s Baguette place in pop culture when playing Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex and the City,” and declaring it was not simply a bag. “This isn’t a bag, it’s a Baguette,” she pleaded to her robber in season three of the iconic series. Now Parker is…

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Olivia Rodrigo’s Early-Twenties Lament

Olivia Rodrigo’s Early-Twenties Lament

“They say modern love’s a cruel endeavor,” Olivia Rodrigo sings on “u + me = <3,” a lush, desperate new song from her third album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.” She adds, “And to that I say, ‘Fuck it, whatever.’ ” Insouciance has always been Rodrigo’s abiding philosophy when it comes…

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What Marcel Is Selling

What Marcel Is Selling

The menu, from the French chef Marie-Aude Rose, who also runs La Mercerie, is old-fashioned in the au-courant way. A preprandial demi-baguette is laid directly on the tablecloth—no board, no basket, no plate; nothing is chicer, or more exquisite, than exquisite nonchalance. (A puck of butter is complimentary, though you can level up to a…

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This Paris Pop-up Gives a Great Sense of Tokyo

This Paris Pop-up Gives a Great Sense of Tokyo

The next best thing to a buying trip in Japan — for consumers and retailers alike — might be the Toyko Sense pop-up in Paris showcasing 29 mostly under-the-radar brands across fashion, home and personal care. Open daily from Sunday to July 7 at 16 Rue des Minimes, the retail showcase comes courtesy of Japanese…

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Kate Millett Disappears

Kate Millett Disappears

Millett said that she created “Terminal Piece” because “it could not be written.” The failure of language again: Is it because language is itself a social system and therefore ultimately untrustworthy? Is the art work, with its autonomy and silence, the only place where individual reality can be safely revealed? Yet it is language that…

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Kate Millett Disappears

Kate Millett Disappears

Millett said that she created “Terminal Piece” because “it could not be written.” The failure of language again: Is it because language is itself a social system and therefore ultimately untrustworthy? Is the art work, with its autonomy and silence, the only place where individual reality can be safely revealed? Yet it is language that…

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