I don’t know the origin of this meme from time immemorial but if anyone else does, please let me know, as I’d very much like to credit the author I made my first Facebook account in the basement compu
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Personal History When I speak Cantonese with my parents now, I rely on translation apps. September 3, 2021 For many children of immigrants
Somewhere between hyper-capitalist motivation videos, pseudo-spiritual tweets, and Instagram therapy infographics, a predominant mental-health narrative has emerged on the internet. It takes many form
I hated it here, and all my life I will miss it Twitter is maybe not long for this world, as you likely have already heard. Everyone on there is posting eulogies, and forwarding addresses, and increas
“Mother, each time I talk to God you interfere.” — Anne Sexton Mom likes that we are tigers, that I crawled out from her womb, a blind and bawling cub, on a tiger year. Our tiger identity is one of th
In Chinese families, you greet someone by asking if they’ve eaten yet. It is love expressed as concern: Let me take care of you, let me tend to your most basic need. And the response — I’ve eaten alre
Photo by Jackson Simmer on Unsplash Hello friends— A few weeks ago, the iconic and legendary critic Parul Sehgal (whom I stan more than any other) published an essay seemingly about the prevalence of
hi, ok, so remember last week when I was like “well I did an experiment with writing a big essay in several parts across a month or so and then pulling them together at the end of the month and it was too hard and I don’t think I’ll do it again?” Well, it turns I’m doing it again this mont
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Like a lot of people, I have found myself overscheduled this summer.
Full-text audio version of this essay. The opening track of Frank Ocean’s 2012 album Channel Orange begins with the PlayStation’s ethereal start-up music, building into a sample of the frenetic charac
On Friday, I officially move to New York. For much of the last month, I’ve been looking at furniture and trying to imagine myself as a different kind of person, someone capable of owning adult objects. I’ve selected a new table, a new couch, new chairs, a new bed.
At H Mart, fresh fruit is carefully wrapped and coddled, to prevent bruising.Credit...By Lanna Apisukh The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia The huge grocery chain and other m
The Great ReadEssay A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World Credit...Grace J. Kim This past year, I’ve spent most of my time in my drafty office in Harlem, wher
The space cars take The island of Manhattan is about 23 square miles. Much of it is covered in roadway, street parking and parking garages. If you added up all the space Manhattan devotes to cars, you
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Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Kate Marchant was in the kitchen of her childhood home, standing across the room from her mother, when she got the email: Robbie Amell, who appeared on the CW’s F
A week or so ago Colgate unveiled Hum — a smart toothbrush that “guides consumers to brush better and to build healthier habits without sacrificing fun for functionality.” Hum doesn’t look or feel lik
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Under Review Increasingly, characters seem to be rewarded for the moral work of feeling bad. August 19, 2020 Illustration by Jiayue Li The
Illustration: Fala Atelier This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. You walk beneath a white molded archway. You’ve e
When it comes to the subtle hierarchies of the world of online video stars, YouTubers are the cream of the crop. The site, with its nearly 2 billion monthly active users, is the largest online video p
Blake Lively had quit acting. The blonde Tarzana, California, native—who, one imagines, leaves a trail of sunflower emojis and the scent of cupcake icing in her wake wherever she goes—had had enough.
In 1971, to the backdrop of a funky jazz rhythm, musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron declared that “ the revolution will not be televised .” In 2020, however, it’s possible that the threads of revolutio
Unsplash | Kendyle Nelsen Unsplash | Kendyle Nelsen For years — decades, even — the world has struggled to understand millennials. We're glued to our phones, annoying as hell, don't take no for an ans
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Lionsgate. Read the rest of Slate’s coverage of the end of the decade. As a book publishing phenomenon, young adult literature entered the decade like a lion. At
Once upon a time, long before I began selling my face by the acre for features on VICE dot com, I worked other jobs. There was one in particular that really had an impact on me: writing fake reviews o
Lana Condor and Noah Centineo as Lara Jean and Peter Kavinsky in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Netflix Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she
On Saturdays, Jesca knits. Maybe she’ll go to the farmer’s market for some fresh fruit (she recently baked some delicious heart-shaped strawberry pastries) or try a new craft, like beeswax candle-maki
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Cultural Comment December 18, 2017 Traditionally, skin care was an attempt to deny the inevitability of the future. Now it’s part of a dre
On a Saturday this past June, in a darkened underground room near Los Angeles International Airport, I yelled things at my father I wouldn't say to him at gunpoint. My mother heard stuff even worse. M
A female metallurgist using an optical pyrometer at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation mill in Gary, Ind., in 1943. Mrs. A poem explores how society erases a woman’s history, sacrifices and ident
Critic's Notebook The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’ I went to as many Instagramable “museums,” “factories” and “mansions” as I could. They nearly broke me. A “champagne bubble” ball pit
A Mother’s Day card showcases one example of the “bridesmaid font.” Getty Images Welcome to Noticed, The Goods’ design trend column. You know that thing you’ve been seeing all over the place? Allow us
MirageC/Getty Images Fall is, without a doubt, the best time to buy office supplies. Yes, office supplies are sold year-round, but fall’s back-to-school vibe spares no one, even those of us who haven’
Blake Lively getting ready to film a scene.Photo: Jessica Dimmock Before you see them, you can hear them. The sound is low but insistent, a hum that gradually develops into something recognizable. Omi
POV: It’s 2013. You’re listening to a Purity Ring song on your iPhone 4S, wearing an American Apparel tennis skirt while reblogging a Tumblr post shipping Santana and Brittany from Glee. Bing! Your fr
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Netflix and A24 This piece originally ran in 2019, when Beanie Feldstein’s character in Booksmart wanted to attend Yale. Now it is 2022 and Drea Torres, played b
12 min read· Apr 15, 2020 -- Like lots of people these days, I enjoy spending time thinking about & investing in companies shaping “the Future of Work”. For that reason, I keep getting asked by my inv
Last night’s giddily awaited premiere of Gossip Girl did not disappoint. This is partly because ever since the day Models Inc was cruelly pulled off the air, we have grown to not expect much from tele
were a bad decade, full of terrorism, financial ruin, and war. The 2010s were different, somehow more disorienting, full of molten anxiety, racism, and moral horror shows. Maybe this is a reason for the disorientation: Life had run on a certain rhythm of time and logic, and then at a hundred…
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