Which prestige tv affectation is more annoying:

- clicking like a blind “The Last of Us” zombie when you can’t find your glasses

- screaming “she’s awake” when you get your period

Sort of hoping someone will read this piece, disagree vehemently with the last few sentences, and make the counterargument

If you want a story about a ballerina sex doll who becomes a real woman and joins a revolution, read “Owlish,” by Dorothy Tse!

Anyway lord bless this take.

If you're having a bad day, here's some otters on a water slide to make your day better..

Thank you Mark, this is a lung-collapsingly good review! Lisa Borst writes better than I do and is funny and she understands things about me that have puzzled me for a long time.

Wrote about a magnetic but frustrating book! newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

ha, i like this take

A new book follows a narrator stricken by sudden deafness, treating hearing loss as both a “medical condition and a metaphor for the incompleteness of our knowledge of the world,” Katy Waldman writes. nyer.cm/waIcYM9

alas, the discourse is full of fault-finding and shaky claims as usual

What’s better than Tobi Haslett on Wayne Koestenbaum: “What does a love of vivid surfaces amount to amid the merciless, ubiquitous solicitations of the touch screen?” 4columns.org/haslett-tobi/s…

'Heartbreak and hearing loss are either symbols for each other or paired expressions of something deeper: a fundamental out-of-tune-ness that is beguilingly present in Callahan’s style.'

A gorgeous read of THE HEARING TEST by Katy Waldman for The New Yorker!
newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Eliza Barry Callahan’s new work of autofiction, “The Hearing Test,” probes the inner life of a narrator stricken by sudden deafness. nyer.cm/LOZYKrZ

Wrote about a magnetic but frustrating book! newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

decided to quit dating apps and meet someone the old-fashioned way: my Dalmatian falls in love with their Dalmatian

Oh I love this from Kelly Link (and the whole wonderful interview too!)

Could building on the water be safer and sturdier than building on flood-prone land? Kyle Chayka profiles Waterstudio, a Dutch architectural firm that specializes in homes that float. nyer.cm/WZ2azSK

It seems we are doing more girlhood discourse! Thought about this a little in relation to Melissa Febos's excellent book 'Girlhood'
newyorker.com/books/under-re…

News!! I am so, so excited to join the brilliant team The New York Times, and to write a newsletter I have long loved to read.

In her second novel, “Help Wanted,” Adelle Waldman animates the daily routines of a group of employees at a superstore in the Hudson Valley, lingering on the superfluous grace that they discover in the performance of rote tasks. nyer.cm/oJDmnFf

Kelly Link and Katy Waldman in a delightful deep-dive conversation.