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“It was 5 hours into the trip when I realized my hostess might be annoyed. 33 hours when I thought she hated me. 55 hours when I knew she…
In this edition of The Weekender: Vice’s demise, new acts of adult rebellion, and prolonged rejection with no escape
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An author’s $2 million book deal was pulled over suspected AI use. Where does publishing go from here?
Three writers jump in a Google doc to discuss the fallout from this most recent literary scandal and debate the future of the industry in the shadow of…
 • John Paul Brammer, Kathleen Schmidt, Lincoln Michel, and Danya Issawi
“The old-media era of journalists really wanted to be powerful. And I think now it’s about being interesting.”
Entertainment reporter Richard Rushfield on the future of showbiz
 • 𓄂randa𓄖 and Richard Rushfield
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“You can’t transform the world unless you can understand it, and you can’t understand the world unless you can measure it”
In this edition of The Weekender: grappling with potential, scamming a scammer, and AI's actual impact
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July 2026

“My husband had wrangled the cat into his crate before the firefighters chopped their way up to our floor”
In this edition of The Weekender: bagels after tragedy, owls on the loose, and secrets from a debut novelist
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Against Claudefishing
Building trust in the AI age
 • Chris Best
“Could I really claim these hallmarks of adulthood if the only thing making them possible is my father’s generosity?”
In this edition of the Weekender: music as a measure of virtue, Phia’s possible legal troubles, and tasting Parisian produce 40 years later
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Regret, superstition, and trauma-bonding: two champions on what it’s really like to play in the World Cup
With eight appearances and three World Cup wins between them, soccer legends Abby Wambach and Julie Foudy peel back the curtain on life at the top of…
 • Welcome to the Party and Danya Issawi
“I had become haunted by the simplest question: What did I care about?”
In this edition of the Weekender: physical therapy for the mind, writers debating the merits of AI, and living at odds with New York City
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“As a writer, I often felt like I was trying to enter various clubs that didn’t want me”
In this edition of the Weekender: performative reading, going back to the drawing board, and a dying author’s final piece of work.
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June 2026

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