For Meanjin, I wrote about STRANGER THINGS 2. And also about urban legends, the mythology of internet memes, how sentimentality and trauma often co-exist and loving something so much that you basically destroy it.
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The Momofuku Group, run by the thirty-nine-year-old chef David Chang, has in recent years expanded into fast food, overseas restaurants, and a quarterly magazine named Lucky Peach. But Momofuku Nishi was the company’s first full-scale, sit-down restaurant to open in New York in five years. A visit from Wells was a certainty. A copy of the one photograph of him that is widely available online, in which he looks like a character actor available to play sardonic police sergeants, was fixed to a wall in the restaurant’s back stairwell.
“Pete Wells Has His Knives Out” by Ian Parker, The New Yorker
This is one of the best profiles I’ve read in a long time. It’s so, so good and has so much to say about cultural criticism, about starred reviews in general, about gentrification and food.
(via hazelcills)
These cards were in display in most cinemas showing the movie.
