“SHEIN might be singled out as the worst fast-fashion retailer because the United States fears..China & it might be singled out b/c it is, in fact, the worst: the greatest polluter, the most flagrant IP thief, the largest violator of human rights” nplusonemag.com/issue-47/revie…

In n+1’s Spring issue, Nicole Lipman reviews SHEIN, “the world’s most googled clothing brand, the largest fast-fashion retailer by sales in the United States, and one of the most popular shopping apps in the world.” nplusonemag.com/issue-47/revie…

My piece in the latest n+1 is one of this week's picks from Longreads! So grateful for this generous writeup.

'A commenter copies the entire first verse of Justin Bieber’s 'Sorry' into a review for a multi-colored midi skirt with a thigh slit. (No information about the skirt; five stars.) . . . Another describes the smell of her new jeans as 'normal.''

Phenomenal essay – especially since I was woefully unfamiliar with SHEIN and this was just the material analysis, written with a ton of style, that I needed.

4. An Age of Hyperabundance (Laura Preston)

'Preston suffuses the piece with a gallows humor that proves absolutely crucial. Laughing to keep from crying has never felt quite so necessary.'

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In this week's #LongreadsTop5 :

-Displacing the Maasai (The Atlantic)
-The death of a pastor (@esquire)
-Alaska's little brown bats (@hakaimagazine)
-A dispatch from an AI conference (@nplusonemag)
-Remembering Shaun of the Dead (@BritishGQ)

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Possibly the best piece ever written about online shopping nplusonemag.com/issue-47/revie… via n+1

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4.24 (wed), there'll be a history panel on Chinatown and the controversial 76ers arena plan. with VU's @LepageVU center and hosted Asian Arts Initiative!

featuring activist Mary Yee; historian Domenic Vitiello; and prize-winning critic Inga Saffron -

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My two favorite things about Nicole Lipman's piece about SHEIN:

* learning that SHEIN is short for She Inside

* this customer review that reads like Gertrude Stein

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“I’d opened a door to a new part of the fashion internet: a place where girls bragged about their ultra-fast-fashion purchases, delighting in the cheapness of the garments. Here, SHEIN was the obvious choice.” nplusonemag.com/issue-47/revie…

Really like how this article goes deep into the details of clothing manufacturing, and situates the brand in the context of our changing social media landscape which now favors images and moods over discussion.

this is fantastic

“Bro’s tripping if he thinks he’s the only one who can throw down on a wack-ass burger in the middle of the day.” In our Spring issue: fiction by Paul Soto. nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ficti…

William Harris delves into the Acid Rhythms of Detroit's industrial history using Joe Molloy's 'Acid Detroit' for n+1 !
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Nicole Lipman Also in pure and alienating delights, Laura Preston follows up her mega-hit “HUMAN_FALLBACK” with a dispatch from an AI conference in Chattanooga. Laura is one of the great comic observers—it’s an honor to see bad tech and bad ideas through her eyes. nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essay…

There’s not much that’s better than n+1 fiction—except Nicole Lipman on SHEIN. Nicole’s reckoning with SHEIN’s horrifying excess and its fever-dream online shopping experience is a pure and alienating delight. Super cute please like! A classic. nplusonemag.com/issue-47/revie…

'It was uncanny to bounce between videos: here was a girl showing off her new halter, here was another girl giving a litany of reasons why it was unconscionable to buy clothes for so little money. Didn’t these TikTokers hear one another? But then again, how could they?'