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If you know how to rewind a cassette with a pencil, congratulations: your skin is probably aging too. I looked at what the science actually recommends and what the skincare industry would rather you keep buying.

Reviewed a movie

Cold Storage

Jonny Campbell

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Project Hail Mary

Phil Lord

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Hokum

Damian McCarthy

Reviewed a movie

Disclosure Day

Steven Spielberg

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Obsession

Curry Barker

Reviewed a movie

Backrooms

Kane Parsons

— @theatlantic.com:Modern blockbusters are getting longer, even as young people struggle to sit through an hour of a film. In The Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal.bsky.social explores how changing attenti...

This story by Stephanie McCrummen for The Atlantic is really good. Easy to file under ‘weird local story’: a Tennessee church waging spiritual warfare on a cafe. But it isn’t fringe. This apostle-and-prophet charismatic Christianity is among the fastest-growing in the US. Scary.

March 28, 2011 - “Dark Spring” by Christoph NiemannNiemann blended his admiration for Japanese ink drawings with the devastation of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami.

June 22, 2020 - “Say Their Names” by Kadir NelsonGeorge Floyd’s portrait containing within his body four centuries of Black victims and figures: Emmett Till, MLK, Breonna Taylor, Rosa Parks, the unnam...

There are so many more, ranging from satire to absolute pieces of art, that are well worth your time. The New Yorker has a special section of its website telling the stories behind the cover. https://...

July 3, 2006 - “Dependence Day” by Christoph NiemannThis beautiful cover is its own take on Chinese Communist propaganda art to comment on China’s rise as manufacturer for the US market.

July 21, 2008 - “The Politics of Fear” by Barry BlittSatirized right-wing smears of the Obamas. Obama spokesman Bill Burton said “most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.” J...

February 16, 1998 - “The Low Road” by Art SpiegelmanAnother by Art Spiegelman, this is a Clinton-scandal Valentine’s cover and perfectly represents Spiegelman’s pointed political satire.

September 24, 2001 - “9/11/2001” by Art Spiegelman & Françoise MoulyMouly describes it best : “The silhouette of the towers, just barely visible, in a deeper black. It was an image that contained ...

March 29, 1976 - “View of the World from 9th Avenue” by Saul SteinbergThe magazine’s most famous cover, representing a Manhattanite’s myopic mental map where the world ends past the Hudson. Spawned co...

February 15, 1993 - “The Kiss” by Art SpiegelmanA Hasidic man kissing a Black woman, published amid Crown Heights racial tensions. Tina Brown’s buzzy arrival as editor in chief.

May 31, 1930 - “Subway golfer” by Peter ArnoArno was one of the magazine’s defining early cover artists, known for bold lines and social satire. This cover is a representative classic-era Arno.