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Culture, Digested: Giving the Audience What They Want
Hasan Minhaj and other fakes and liars
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Jessa Crispin
2
Clarice Lispector Goes Supernova
On the flattening and the selling of the female writer lifestyle
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Meagan Masterman
1
Culture, Digested: The Struggle to Not Think
Agnes Callard, Andrea Long Chu, and other viral moments
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Jessa Crispin
4
Elena Velez, NY Fashion Week, and the Existential Dread of an Open Casting Call
"Who doesn't want to look like a bog witch with cockroach nails, emerging from a chthonic swamp?"
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Jessica Almereyda
Culture, Digested: Vengeance, Twenty Years Later
Oldboy returns to the theaters
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Jessa Crispin
3
August 2023
Culture Digested: Link Dump, Covid Edition
food culture wars and fire sale at the art museum
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Jessa Crispin
3
Culture, Digested: The Age of the Intermediary
MovieTok, BookTok, and other curatorial practices
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Jessa Crispin
2
The Transformation Metric
Why do we think travel is supposed to change us?
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Cailey Rizzo
Culture, Digested: Trendy Race Blind Casting
What Hamilton, The Little Mermaid, and The Doctor can tell us about diversity in the arts
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Jessa Crispin
4
Culture, Digested: Reality Television Is Revolting
Love is Blind is unionizing, the Farmer won't get a wife, and other labor law violations
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Jessa Crispin
5
July 2023
Culture, Digested: True Crime Brain
Sound of Freedom is for boys, Gabby Petito content is for girls
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Jessa Crispin
1
Culture, Digested: Link Dump
Hatchet jobs, Dimes Square is a fascist playground, blah blah blah
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Jessa Crispin
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