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It takes a lot of work to make fantasies come true, but that’s what New York designer Sandy Liang has been doing every season for her fellow apostles of girlishness for over a decade.

Everyone is searching for the perfect white T-shirt. Truth be told, no matter how many already hang in our closets, it never feels like enough. It remains one of a wardrobe’s simplest yet most elusive staples. This quest for the ideal tee is a shared obsession—one that bridges the everyday shopper and the designer alike. Consider how back in 2006, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen founded The Row with a single, foundational mission: to design the perfect white T-shirt.

New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv has built a reputation writing probing profiles of overworked nurses, wronged women, and toxic mothers. The latter forms the theme of her new book published in July, You Won’t Get Free Of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters, which centers on the tangled knot of the matrilineal relationship. On the first page she reveals that her mother dreamed of writing for The New Yorker and composing her own novel in the style of Madame Bovary.

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For Isabella Lovestory, every ending seems to arrive with the promise of another beginning. She grew up in the mountains surrounding Tegucigalpa, built a life in Montreal, and is now packing it all up for Los Angeles. Along the way, she’s become one of pop music’s most irreverent voices, turning reggaeton into something louder, stranger, and almost impossible to pin down. Movement has shaped Isabella’s life for so long that it no longer carries much ceremony.

Jiang, however, rejects the idea that his work is part of an intellectual status game, arguing instead that the hostility directed toward him stems from the credentialed class feeling threatened by increasingly accessible forms of learning. “Students are opting out of attending university lectures, mainstream media are losing subscribers, and authority figures are no longer so,” he tells me. His audience often describes his appeal in intensely personal terms.

The fashion business is overrun by nepo babies, and others in Nix’s position might have seen this as an opportunity: to grow a following, to chase clout, to fast-track connections and brand deals. But that’s not her style. Aside from writing a graceful essay in The Cut about her experience, entitled “The Year the World Found Out I Was a Hadid,” she’s quietly worked behind the scenes as an assistant, save for a few stray modeling gigs.

Over the last few years, Brutalismus 3000 have become one of electronic music’s most recognizable acts. Their crowds stretch far beyond the scenes that first embraced them, gathering in festival fields, warehouses, and clubs from Los Angeles to Tokyo. At any show, people are just as likely to be moshing, headbanging, and doing the hakken as they are standing completely still waiting for the next drop. The uniforms vary by city, but the intensity remains the same.

“How do you break the news of what should be fictional? Our journalists are poets, almost, when narrating all this death. And the poets write with knives.” — Mohammed El-Kurd In the summer of 2023, Lex Fridman, a computer scientist and one of the most popular podcasters in the world, invited Benjamin Netanyahu onto his show.