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The collective dining experience right now is visceral, vulnerable, downright weird at times—and so very human. Nothing is more real than a whole fish, a dish that makes an appearance, in various forms, on many of the menus featured in the forty-first edition of our Best New Restaurants—reported, as always, by real humans: Jeff Gordinier, Joshua David Stein, Omar Mamoon, and yours truly. Over the past year, we crisscrossed the nation, sampling some two hundred new dining establishments that serve almost every conceivable type of cuisine. After a series of spirited debates, we settled on fifty restaurants that stood out from the rest, below, in alphabetical order by state. |
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From corduroy pants to a velour polo, there are steals to be had. |
| Joaquin Phoenix's campy historical manboy—who loves himself a lamb chop and oinks when he wants to get nasty—will haunt me for years. |
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One problem with hating pretty much everything Steve Bannon says and everything he stands for is that it might be exactly what he wants. "I hope they say I'm a devil," he'll tell me. "I hope they say I'm a fucking demon. I could give a fuck less. All I want to do is win." Another is that maybe such dilemmas are a distraction, masking more crucial questions. For instance: Is Bannon truly someone forever playing the game several levels above and ahead of the rest of us, his every ambiguous zig and zag calculated to further a majestic master plan? Or is he actually just one more big-talking huckster, brazenly improvising whatever he can with whichever tools he can muster, making it all up as he goes? Or—maybe the most chastening possibility of all—might it be that in our modern-day runaway world of increasingly fractured and divided truths, there's no longer a meaningful difference between the two? |
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He said he didn't want a gift, but trust us, these are an exception. |
| For Gen Z, the campus novel is a fantasy. In the age of student debt and hybrid learning, students are thinking long and hard about how fiction can better reflect the new reality of college. |
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Enough. Enough with turning American streets into the OK Corral. Enough with vandalizing American shops and small businesses. Enough with vicarious combat through long-distance flexing. Three college students— in freaking Vermont— were shot for speaking the wrong language and wearing the wrong accessories. Enough, before all of this spirals completely out of control. |
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 I'm about to blow your mind with the best Cyber Monday deal of the entire day. Honestly, this deal is better than most of the Cyber Monday deals I've seen, and all the Black Friday deals from last week combined. It almost makes me think Amazon made a mistake, but they didn't (I don't think): Dickies 874 Work Pants are on sale for 15 bucks today. Reread that, if you need to. Dickies for 15 bucks! For Cyber Monday, Amazon has marked down the 874s by 50%, so today, you can buy Dickies for less than your lunch. |
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This rare discount is selling fast. |
| An unheard of deal that'll be gone by the end of the day. |
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Donald Trump won the 2020 election," Steve Bannon pronounces. "Of that there is not even a question." Obviously you expect me not to agree with you, I say. "Of course I expect you not to agree with me," he says. "And I'm also not looking for you to agree with me. And I also don't give a fuck who in the mainstream media agrees or disagrees with me." And so off we go—about this and about Covid (the Bannon view: "It's 100 percent a bioweapon—fucking not even a question") and about vaccines ("I would never in ten million years get this vaccine," Bannon says, and asks if I would; I simply hand him my vax card, which he looks at with apparent amazement: "I've never . . .") and about what I view—but naturally Bannon doesn't—as his incessant anti-Semitic dog-whistling. At one point, he rhapsodizes about the range of information available to people these days. Or misinformation, I say. |
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Naturally, Bezos makes up his own rules. |
| Blueair never has deals this good. |
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Today's students, it seems, are never not thinking about money. Lynn Steger Strong, whose novel Want is a precarity novel set in the world of academia, said that her students at Columbia and Princeton "are so aware of the ways that this won't work"—this being the occupation of writing. "There is a level of fear in the world right now that's so intense," she continued. She herself thinks of the campus as an "endlessly precarious place" where students are fighting for a prosperous future as contingent laborers (think: adjuncts) are always fighting for another semester of employment. "I love my job," she said. "It's hard to fully be inside of that love when you're constantly aware of the fact that it might disappear." |
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