Culture & Opinion
Literary Roast 2024: The Year’s Most Brutal Book Reviews
Dive into Literary Hub’s roundup of The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024, featuring biting critiques of Melania Trump, Haruki Murakami, and Malcolm Gladwell.
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Your Life, Curated by Algorithm: Are You Even Choosing?
A thought-provoking look at why our modern world’s curated culture and popularity-driven algorithms are robbing us of genuine discovery—and how to reclaim your power to choose.
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You Don’t Need A Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume
Explore Brett Berk's The Drive article on America's obsession with pickup trucks. Are they tools of necessity or oversized cowboy costumes? Find out what the numbers reveal and why practicality takes a back seat.
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Secrets and Sabotage: One Man’s Fight Against America’s Militias
Explore Joshua Kaplan's gripping ProPublica investigation into John Williams, a wilderness survivalist who risked his life to infiltrate and expose America’s militia movements.
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Strava x Chipotle Go Global: Join “The City Challenge” in 25 Cities
Chipotle and Strava are teaming up for a global “City Challenge” in 25 cities. Compete for free Lifestyle Bowls for a year, plus a BOGO prize for your entire city. Don’t quit—get moving, and grab your goals (and guac).
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Falling on Your Face (and Learning to Love It): Lessons in Failure
Obsessed with success? Explore why setbacks, humility, and a healthy dose of self-reflection matter more for true growth than chasing endless achievements.
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Ditch the Cookie-Cutter Diet: Why One Size Never Fits All
Tired of diets that never last? Learn why a psychology-first approach, rooted in mindful habits, is the key to personalized and sustainable weight management.
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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
Dive into Adam Moss’s innovative look at the creative process behind world-class artistry. Discover how poets, painters, filmmakers, and more turn raw ideas into finished masterpieces in The Work of Art.
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Reflecting on an Alternate History Where Carter Won a Second Term
Travel to an alternate 1980s where Jimmy Carter secures a second term and Ronald Reagan never becomes president. How might American policies, the Cold War, and the cultural landscape have changed? Here’s a look at what could have been.
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Designing the Wild: Parks 2 Blends History and Nature
Explore Parks 2, a stunning ode to the National Park Service’s graphic design legacy, featuring over 300 pieces of history, art, and essays celebrating America’s natural wonders.
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15 of My Favorite Movies to Watch on New Year’s Eve
For many, New Year’s Eve is a time of reflection and renewal—a hopeful (or slightly ominous) bridge into the next chapter. Movies have long captured this mix of optimism and peril, serving up tales of romance, tragedy, and transformation. Here are 15 standout films perfect for ringing in
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Architecton Trailer
This looks epic, can't wait to watch. Architecton is a new documentary film written and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky. It is an extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and