People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.
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Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2026
It is anticipated that all IEEE periodicals will be included in the Integrity Hub screening by the end of this year.
For a creamy, just-tangy-enough spinach-artichoke dip, newsletters editor Erin Neil’s not-so-secret ingredient is this classic mayonnaise.
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Matt Piper,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2026
From TikTok videos to front tables at indie bookshops and in countless newsletters, a group of seemingly ubiquitous novels are being grouped together like ingredients for a distinctive personality type.
But there was a time when comic-book heroes appeared on movie screens only sparingly — particularly between the waning days of old serials and the premiere of Superman in 1978.
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Jesse Hassenger,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Aug. 2026
Romance stories and drama thrillers are still the dominant genres for short-form serials and recurring series, but that mix is changing.
The publication, which began with a text from Sofia Coppola, arrives at a time when teen magazines have dwindled, with Seventeen discontinuing monthly print issues in 2018, and Teen Vogue folding into Vogue in 2025.
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Kalia Richardson,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2026
By the 1950s, this thinking had trickled down to the masses, and with help from women’s magazines, wearing white after Labor Day was considered inappropriate.
As the historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway reported in the book Merchants of Doubt, the institute strategically refused to publish in journals subject to independent peer review.
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Matthew Sun,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2026
With Diane Lane narrating from Eleanor’s journals during that time, Making Marie Antoinette transcends a behind-the-scenes special and becomes a much more intimate look into the artistry of a mother and daughter in conversation with each other.
Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations.
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Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
The Southern California News Group is made up of 11 daily news publications and several weeklies throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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