Who’s Afraid of Being Middlebrow? Virginia Woolf.

I fear nobody will ever live up to virginia woolf's standards I am as middlebrow as the rest of them www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

👀 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The People Who Clean the Ears of Lincoln (And Other Statues) A collection of images of the varied workers and techniques used to maintain some of the world’s largest and most prominent statues and monuments.

ever wonder who cleans michelangelo's david's butt? www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

it's possible our anthologized print copies from 1860 are not 100 percent faithful ... still I do wonder where Holt could've gotten this! hmmmm

this got me curious and I looked in the January, February, and March 1860 print issues that we have at our offices, and I can't find anything that's ad-coded!

im in

nvm you found! ha

the tweet (gone now) you are looking for was by our very own mr @dgraham.bsky.social!

100 Notable Books of 2024 Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

(ofc its about all fours www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

a screenshot of a label on a website that reads in all capital letters "Sexy Perimenopause Fiction"

"sexy perimenopause fiction"

a photograph of a floppy ear short hair brown tricolor dog with white chest and paw markings and a green collar, looking up at the camera expectantly

good (boy) 4 u

I still haven't thrown mine out either 🫠

:(

a photo of two black plastic kitchen utensils side by side, on the left a pasta fork on the right a ladle

iykyk ???

omg. wtf ???????

its horrible! HORRIBLE

photo credits: Money Sharma / AFP / Getty; Sajjad Hussain / AFP / Getty

so the AQI is > 1100 rn where some of these photos were taken in India .... (>300 is "hazardous")

www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

woah

came to my senses!

photo of a blurry tricolor brown dog with an orange harness running through a field

freebie of my blurry son