People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.
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Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
30 July 2026
In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
The touchstones are plentiful—Harmonia’s cyclical drift, Alice Coltrane’s stargazing elegies, gamelan’s hypnotic shimmer—but the song is strange and unpredictable.
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Dash Lewis,
Pitchfork,
13 July 2026
Last week, some of the brightest minds of my generation left us angry elegies and poetic travelogues.
But in keeping with its protagonist’s difficulty staring at his feelings head-on, The Vampire Lestat—and the marketing that preceded its premiere—doesn’t start with ballads or sensual odes to far-reaching love.
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Hannah Giorgis Yohannes,
Vanity Fair,
13 July 2026
The sleek property features several odes to San Diego landmarks, starting with the heated saltwater pool inspired by the Balboa Park Lily Pond and gazebo honoring the Botanical Building.
Because the psalms were originally accompanied by instruments, scholars’ best guess is that selah was some sort of musical marking.
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Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2026
Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more.
If powder-white beaches, turquoise waters, and lush jungles are at the top of your travel itinerary, the following 11 idylls are must-gos, where nature is at its most relaxed and pleasurable.
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Skyli Alvarez,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 May 2026
But while Provo has become developed, its neighbors, Parrish assured me, remain timeless idylls, their empty interiors encircled by endless beaches fringed with casuarina trees.
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