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PS Picks: Yaeji’s Cutting Commentary on Beauty Routines
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Can Live Theater Help Spur Climate Action?
This year's Ojai Playwrights Conference tackled the existential threat of climate change.
‘Indigenous Writing Is Going to Continue to Set the Bar for Literary Excellence’: An Interview With Alicia Elliott and Arielle Twist
Terese Marie Mailhot interviews Alicia Elliott and Arielle Twist about some recent triumphs in Indigenous literature—and about other triumphs still to come.
Jia Tolentino Talks to Samantha Irby About ‘Trick Mirror’
The New Yorker staff writer discusses her unpublished first novel, and why Americans are perennially obsessed with a good scam.
‘The Farewell’ Captures the Chinese-American Experience in a Way I Never Thought I’d See on Screen
Going to China as a second-generation Chinese American is a deeply personal and overwhelming experience—and this movie evokes it beautifully.
‘Jesus Wasn’t This American Corn-Fed God’: Lyz Lenz on Faith, Loss, and Sexism in Rural America
The author of God Land discusses misogyny in church leadership—and why so many depictions of Jesus look like Brad Pitt.
In a Tornado, Mobile Homes Are Deadly
The federal government needs to start subsidizing storm shelters for people living in mobile homes in rural areas.
Andrew Yang’s Doom-and-Gloom Climate Statement Shows His Silicon Valley Roots
Yang, the long-shot Democratic 2020 candidate, is playing up his credentials as a pragmatist. But there's nothing pragmatic about letting climate change proceed unchecked.
Marianne Williamson’s Ideas About Health and Disability Are Downright Dangerous
The threats that Williamson's ideas present to disabled people are not just hypothetical.