Vinson Cunningham

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Vinson Cunningham

Leather, feathers, and capes—oh, my! The glamour of the Met Gala promenade honoring Black dandyism. And, then, Ian Frazier takes a deep dive into the hazardous lives of New York City pigeons. Plus:• Elon Musk’s supercomputer is polluting Memphis• A boxing match in Times Square• What we can learn from broken thingsVinson CunninghamCunningham is a critic for the magazine, and was a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Vinson Cunningham

Worse, I’m not sure I want to. If I’m away and something big happens, I usually ask a friend if he can stop by a newsstand so I don’t miss the hard copy of a good front-page headline. If I’m somewhere with a critical mass of vacationing New Yorkers, I set out on foot, knowing there’s likely a Post nearby. In August, 2022, just after the F.B.I. raid at Mar-a-Lago, in search of allegedly mishandled classified documents, I rushed into a liquor store on Martha’s Vineyard and scored a copy.

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Vinson Cunningham

Shortly after Pope Francis died, on Monday, the Vatican released a brief document he had authored in 2022, outlining his last testament: how and where he should be buried, how the proceedings should be handled. The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at the Vatican but at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, where before and after each of his international trips he went to pray.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Vinson Cunningham

In the very first shot of the pilot episode of “Paradise”—a recent dystopian political thriller from Hulu—a man played by Sterling K. Brown lies alone, unrestfully, in bed. His eyes are bolted open. A watercolor wash of blue light floods his face. He blinks a bit and looks around the room, then caresses the unused pillow next to his own.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Vinson Cunningham

1 day agoOne Word of Truth Shall Outweigh the Whole WorldThe Russian author’s Nobel Prize lecture contains an urgent message for contemporary audiences. In October 1970, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.” In his Nobel Prize …NowWho is Juliana Pasquarosa?