Dua Lipa’s new album, “Radical Optimism,” does not require its listeners to know anything about anything, really, except how cleansing and ecstatic it can feel to move your body with brainless abandon, Amanda Petrusich writes. nyer.cm/p7LlfxS

I love this passage a lot

.Amanda Petrusich asking the only Qs that matter: 'What is the point of all that money if it doesn’t buy you freedom from corporate branding?'

Great piece as ever by Petrusich. Hard to quote a single line but I liked this one a lot: 'What is the point of all that money if it doesn’t buy you freedom from corporate branding?' Or: '...the vibe is ultimately more high-end stationery store than musty rare-books room.'

''The Tortured Poets Department' is preoccupied with writerly accoutrements, but the vibe is ultimately more high-end stationery store than musty rare-books room.' - Amanda Petrusich
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My The New Yorker review of The Tortured Poets Department, online now & in print next week 😃🧐🥹😳😬😵‍💫🥴 newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

.The New Yorker profiles are not quick reads but I've read this one twice. Amanda Petrusich with the creative process x religion mashup we didn't know we needed

Late to it but this is a really good review of the new Vampire Weekend album by Amanda Petrusich for the The New Yorker, by which I mean it’s perceptive, informed, informative and well written. PS. I agree with her about the record too. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Had an extremely fun time seeing Olivia Rodrigo at MSG — did not realize I desperately needed to scream “Everything I do is tragic / Every guy I like is gay” along with 14,000 pre-teens, but boy did I! My review, in this week’s The New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

'For years, I heard 'Light On' as about love doomed by bad timing—a person asking, earnestly, What if there was a way for us to hold and care for one another, beyond the sometimes impossible confines of a traditional relationship?' Great Amanda Petrusich:
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Man, Maggie Rogers is a real one — generous, smart, funny, a little wild at heart. Loved spending the last couple months talking art, writing, love, service, time, contentment, fame & more with her. Online now & in this week’s issue!

Now that the show is over I can definitely say this is my favorite curb joke

this is beautiful.

about to 'did you just feel that earthquake' my way back into her life

Vampire Weekend's fifth album is 'a treatise on inheritance, decay, generational dissonance, and the delicate idea of choosing optimism over defeatist grousing,' writes Amanda Petrusich
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Vampire Weekend has never made a bad album, but its latest, “Only God Was Above Us,” is one of its best, Amanda Petrusich writes. nyer.cm/tqQEeTX

it's something of a struggle to juggle my main life aspiration (be cool and shut the fuck up) with my vocation ('writer')

ICYMI, watch our biography event 'Lou Reed: The King of New York - Will Hermes in Conversation with Amanda Petrusich' - now on YouTube! youtu.be/Y8zVTui-AlA Leon Levy Center for Biography Will Hermes Amanda Petrusich Kai Bird

Last night, Will Hermes, author of 'Lou Reed: The King of New York' & Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker staff writer, treated us to a fascinating conversation about Lou, the art of biography, and writing about rock icons. Video coming soon! (Photos: Paula Vlodkowsky)