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Suzy Weiss: My Afternoon with the Vibe Coders
Plus: Tech feuds, Jesse Armstrong’s new movie, Taylor Swift’s grudges. And more!
Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss: Can Men Make Friends?
Plus: We made the straight men of The Free Press review ‘Sex and the City.’
Suzy Weiss
The Straight-Male Case for ‘Sex and the City’
I couldn’t help but wonder: Is Carrie Bradshaw the answer to the male-loneliness epidemic?
Will Rahn
Suzy Weiss: I Stand with America’s First Granddaughter
I called up Greg Gutfeld to talk late night, watched a new Gen X divorce show and all of Kai Trump's TikTok, then went to a right-wing gallery opening…
Suzy Weiss
Love on the Spectrum, Bitter Pop Queens, Studio Ghibli—and More!
Pop stars hate you. Reality television is a spectrum. Forever 21 is dead. Welcome back to Suzy Weiss’s weekly tour of American culture.
Suzy Weiss
Things Worth Remembering: Abigail Shrier on When Harry Met Sally
‘When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.’
Abigail Shrier
‘Snow White,’ Woke Preppers, David Blaine—and More!
Welcome to a new Free Press culture column from Suzy Weiss.
Suzy Weiss
Anora and the Pain and Power of Being Sexy
The Oscar-winning film reveals that a woman can be smaller, weaker, and victimizable, but also have the upper hand—not in spite of these things, but…
Kat Rosenfield
Timothée Chalamet and the Rise of the Try-Hards
Out with ironic distance, and in with excellence—or at least the pursuit of it.
Suzy Weiss
Things Worth Remembering: On Being Safe, Free, and Miserable
In ‘A Real Pain,’ which deserves an Oscar today, Jesse Eisenberg asks: How dare we be so overwhelmed by our own freedom when our ancestors were denied…
Hadley Freeman
Make Actors Apolitical Again
Once upon a time in Hollywood, Oscar winners were booed for making their acceptance speeches political. It was a golden age.
Kat Rosenfield
‘The Brutalist’ Asks: Do Jews Belong in America?
A hugely consequential film dares to ask a question that was unfathomable before October 7, 2023.
Peter Savodnik
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