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- Sasha Weiss is the literary editor of newyorker.com.
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September 13, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner
Why Don’t You … ? A Fashion Week Diary
The best fashion shows offer a tantalizing glimpse of a fashionable mind—like a slightly sinister conjurer’s trick, terribly alive and just out of reach.
August 30, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Reacting to Miley
Miley Cyrus’s performance at the V.M.A.s has been debated, criticized, and dissected to the point of absurdity. But the sheer proliferation of response and reinterpretation it has provoked is also interesting: the week offered...
July 24, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner
Love, Actually
“The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.” is not a comforting book, but its bracing truth is its own consolation…
June 13, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
We Are All Pole Dancing on the Internet
I kept thinking, as I read about Lindsay Mills’s blog, How did an outward person like Mills manage to live with such a reticent guy as Edward Snowden?
May 12, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner
Our Hunger for the Obscene Details
I can’t help asking, for whom, and for what purpose, were these details publicized? Why do I need to know what I now know?
May 4, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner
Have You Seen This Book? An O.E.D. Mystery
On Friday afternoon, the Oxford English Dictionary’s Web site appealed to the public for help in identifying a mysterious book, “Meanderings of Memory.”
February 28, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Anne Hathaway: In Defense of the Happy Girl
I’m not so sure that girls are likeable, and I think this goes for girlish women like Anne Hathaway, who retain a bounding, uncontained energy. Look no further for evidence than the treatment of an actual nine-year-old girl who made an appearance at the Oscars, Quvenzhané Wallis, the star of “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”
February 25, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Oscar-Fashion Report Card
This year, armor-like, severe cuts were the vogue among women; hair was sheared off or tucked away on top of the head. The simplicity and even austerity in the looks of our female stars was its own rebuke to Seth MacFarlane and his fratty jokes.
February 15, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Fashion Week: Planet Proenza Schouler
The Proenza Schouler show was like walking through the Met’s galleries of gigantic, baroquely detailed seventeenth-century history paintings for a few days, and then finding myself in the serene company of a single Rothko. My eyes were freshened, my mind given room to wander.
February 13, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Fashion Week: Comrades-In-Style
Every week is fashion week on a New York street, and facing the prowling bands of fashionistas outside, it helps to be wearing armor.
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