Released in 2025, the first part of Julia Loktev’s monumental documentary project My Undesirable Friends, subtitled Last Air in Moscow, gave us a sprawling, breathless look at a few devastating months in the lives of Russian journalists.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2026
Associated Press journalists waiting at a checkpoint south of the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon saw a convoy of ICRC vehicles heading toward the Naqoura border crossing Friday morning and later return.
So the publicists for writers, theaters, and museums kept writing and phoning, even offering to fly her back to New York to see this or that, once or twice mentioning a free trip to Europe.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2026
Vulture has confirmed a report that Martin Herlihy, part of the Please Don’t Destroy sketch trio who joined the show as writers and performers in 2021, is leaving the show ahead of its season 52 premiere on September 26.
The authors specifically pointed to gaps in funding for the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
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Jenna McLaughlin,
NPR,
3 Sep. 2026
Our judges include some of today’s most influential creators and thinkers, including award-winning authors Jason Reynolds & Angie Thomas and writer and speaker Bartunde Thurston.
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USA TODAY Network Staff Reports,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2026
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