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“Two People Exchanging Saliva” rewrites the slap in cinema

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💥 Read this trending post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / Screening Room ✅ Main takeaway: One of the promotional images for "Two People Slobbering" is a black-and-white close-up of a woman, her face bruised, her nose bleeding, her eyes droopy with ecstasy. What are we to make of the feelings this woman arouses in us: the reflexive response to distress, and then to the more cultured, and therefore repressed, curiosity? What can hurt well? The film is a tale of intimacy and consumerism set in a dystopian version of Paris where romantic touch, especially a kiss,…

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The strange and changing role of the NFL punter

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✨ Explore this trending post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Sports / The Sporting Scene 💡 Key idea: During a typical game, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Ethan Evans is synonymous with disappointment. All gamblers. No fan cheers when their team's players run down the field facing fourth-and-long. His job is to concede the ball, get the ball back into the opposing team's control, and put them in the worst possible position. Gamblers, historically, have had a somewhat shady reputation, with their uniforms not stained with grass. When a punter was drafted in the third round of the 2012…

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Edwidge Danticat for “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid

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🚀 Read this trending post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Magazine / Takes ✅ Key idea: As girls, we may find it difficult to imagine our mothers - especially if they were strict Caribbean mothers - as anything other than the poised ladies who were determined to mold us. We struggle to imagine that they were little girls, flying kites, climbing trees, and playing hopscotch and marbles with their siblings. As mothers, some of us are so afraid for our daughters that we issue long lists of instructions that we hope will protect them from a hostile and…

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Ariel Levy in Emily Hahn’s “The Big Smoke.”

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💥 Discover this insightful post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Magazine / Takes 📌 Key idea: “Although I have always wanted to be an opium addict, I cannot claim that is the reason I went to China.” Thus begins "The Big Smoke," Emily Han's account of her journey from lively traveler to pale lotus eater (and back again) in 1930s Shanghai. This indifferent beginning of course makes you curious about why Han went to China, and why she was so eager to become an opium addict. More urgently, it makes you wonder: Who is this lady? What will…

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DOJ hits new low with Epstein files

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✨ Read this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Magazine / Comment,News / The Lede 📌 Main takeaway: On a Friday evening in October 2021, the Department of Justice went into damage control mode. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and other top officials met on an emergency conference call to decide how to handle what they viewed as out-of-line comments from President Joe Biden.Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, challenged a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating on January 6. Committee members were considering whether to refer Bannon to the…

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Restaurant Review: Me Donut?

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / The Food Scene 💡 Main takeaway: Me Donut?, a Japanese bakery chain known for its viral popularity and intriguing name, opened earlier this year in a sleek storefront in Times Square. The company's specialty is They slept A donut (the word in Japanese means "raw" or "fresh") is a moist, very light mass of starch and sugar that seems to have been captured by gravity thanks to the marginal heaviness of various frostings, garnishes and fillings. This textural magic is achieved by means of a…

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Daniel Muin al-Din on the great curve of history

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Books / This Week in Fiction 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Bayezid is an unusual character because he has a drive, which is a form of curiosity like anything else. Even as a boy, he wanted something so badly, even though he didn't know what he wanted. He knows he doesn't want to spend his life making chapatis at a tea stall. His imagination is inflamed by movies, and when he learns to read through hard work, he is fed by gruesome novels. His magpie mind knows that…

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The play that changed my life: ‘It was scary at first but the inheritance made me discover myself’ | Young Vic

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Young Vic,EM Forster,Books,Culture,Stage,Broadway,Theatre,Acting,Stephen Daldry,Aids and HIV 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: In 2018 I had recently lost my mother, so I was searching for connection with spirit. Inheritance allowed me to speak about matters of the heart.It was a world premiere at the Young Vic in London, so we were creating something completely new, which is always exciting. They actually rehearsed for a week with another actor who dropped out of what became my role. I stayed up all night reading Matthew Lopez's script before the audition.…

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Review of ‘I Dream of Theresa May’ – Migrant-wanted political shift sparks intense debate | stage

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Political theatre,Stage,Immigration and asylum,Culture,Theresa May 💡 Main takeaway: Remember Theresa May's "Citizen" speech in 2016 ("If you think you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere") at the height of her questionable immigration policies?Well, she's back to her former glory as Home Secretary, appearing as a looming specter in Vivek Nityananda's political satire about Nikhil (Taarash Mehrotra), a young gay Indian cancer survivor in Britain, who becomes desperate to take indefinite leave to stay and prove himself as a 'good' migrant.Theresa May (Amy Allen)…

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Gallus in Weegieland Review – Funny Show Sends Alice Down a Classroom Rabbit Hole | stage

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Panto season,Tron theatre,Stage,Culture 💡 Key idea: MThe quirky playwright has discovered that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is more difficult to adapt than they might assume. Yes, Lewis Carroll's children's classic is rich with modernity, wit and joy. But also yes, its structure is episodic and its hero lacks agency. Things happen to Alice, one thing after another: colorful but not dramatic.Carroll purists certainly wouldn't agree, but in Wegeland's Gallus, Johnny McKnight makes a better fist of it than most. His version may deviate from the original with…

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