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The Atlantic

• The Hero Gen Z Needs (on Snoopy)

• How a Band Falls Apart, According to Stereophonic

• What’s a Kids’ Fantasy Show Without Wonder? (on season 1 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

• The Long Afterlife of Awards-Show Speeches

• Book recommendation blurbs:

  • The One Book Everyone Should Read - Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

  • 24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer - Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett

  • The Great American Novels - Nightwood by Djuna Barnes; In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes; On the Road by Jack Kerouac; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle; Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy; I Love Dick by Chris Kraus; Amiable With Big Teeth by Claude McKay; Severance by Ling Ma

Fast Company

• Freedom Fries 2.0: People are shunning vodka, ballet performances, and everything Russian

• Texas businesses stay silent on Greg Abbott’s controversial anti-trans directive

• Are there just too damn many dating apps?

• A TikTok star turned a rejection letter into a poignant lesson about gatekeeper power

Vulture

• All Skip Buttons Should Be 10 Seconds Long

North by Northwestern

• Shall remain nameless / Online anonymity has empowered Northwestern students to take on the institutions that they've seen fail them.

• Commitment Day / Students who put on a ring before a cap and gown.

• This Is My Jam: "Stick It!"

• Print editions I edited can be found here.