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Teen wearing Y2K fashion, 2000s style, inside teenage bedroom, talking on cordless telephone, sitting on an inflatable chair, wearing flared denim jeans.

Why We Can’t Quit Our Y2K Obsessions

Alice Bolin’s essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it prevents us from engaging with their more noxious elements.

Author Catherine Lacey leans against a couch in New York in March 2023.

Catherine Lacey’s Disappointing Fusion of Fiction and Memoir

The Möbius Book explores love, faith, and cliché—but its experiments in form don’t live up to their promise.

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing

A illustration of 11 people creating a pyramid with the top person throwing out dollar bills

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing

Books & the Arts

Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in “Materialists.”

Celine Song’s Materialists Tries to Subvert the Rom-Com

The filmmaker’s follow-up to Past Lives is cerebral and frank about wealth and romance.

A photo illustration of key characters around the Charlottesville protests in 2021 including images of Zyahna Bryant, Richard Spencer, and the Robert E Lee statue and Thomas Jefferson

Unearthing the Deep Fascist Roots of the Unite the Right Rally

Charlottesville reaches into Virginia’s past to trace the currents that led to the violent neo-Nazi rally.

	
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