The detailed biographies of every correspondent make, in themselves, a whole picture of the cultural and political life of the early twentieth century.
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Hermione Lee,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
Curators pop up in famous artists’ biographies all the time, usually as handmaidens to the creator’s genius, opening a door to a gallery here or supporting a grant application there.
His heroes aren’t athletes or movie stars but anonymous Twitter accounts—anime avatars and pseudonyms with cryptic bios—whose followers track their trades with devotional intensity.
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Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
17 Mar. 2026
The Dude Humor Report literally labels itself as satire, and many similar pages do the same in their bios or post descriptions.
She became known as an influencer in the #MomTok community, a group of women from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sharing their lives on TikTok.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
The right side is where your Shimano Tourney 7-speed trigger lives.
Now, though, with the widespread circulation of magic manuals, grimoires, and related compendia—with the recording, on paper, of words, spells, histories, stories—witchcraft has taken an irreversible step into the exoteric realm.
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Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
These substances have long histories of use in Traditional Chinese Medicine, says Naidoo, but are today rarely consumed in their raw form.
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