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Kristin Lewis

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18h
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 14/10/2026
October 🍂
A forest scene during autumn with trees featuring vibrant yellow leaves and a ground covered with a carpet of fallen orange and brown leaves. In the foreground, a prominent tree trunk covered in pale green lichen stands on the right.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 9h
"The biggest myth about grief is that it happens in neat, orderly stages and that you eventually get over it," said Dr Lesel Dawson. "In reality, grief is messy, unpredictable and deeply individual. People move back and forth between feelings....
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
At WBUR this week I reviewed Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s mind-melting Elizabeth Holmes documentary YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING.
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Elizabeth Holmes documentary 'You Can See Everything' is a wild, mind-melting movie
Before reporting to prison, the reclusive Holmes invited TV prankster Nathan Fielder to come to her home and hear her side of the story. This is a film "people are going to be talking about for the re...
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11h
Good night, Bluesky, & pleasant dreams William Steig New Yorker November 1, 1969
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Description: A five-headed jack-in-the-box of monster heads springs into action.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 13/10/2026
Fall looks good on you, New England. Here’s a look at last week’s colorful scenes from the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont.
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Kristin Lewis @kalewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“‘America in the Making’ at the Addison Gallery of American Art…The museum draws from its own….collection to offer a…. exhibition that takes a sober and thoughtful view of the ever more contentious reality of America.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/09/a... www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/09/a...
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‘America in the Making’ at the Addison Gallery of American Art is a big attempt to comprehend our national narrative - The Boston Globe
The museum draws from its own remarkable collection to offer a semiquincentennial exhibition that takes a sober and thoughtful view of the ever more contentious reality of America.
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Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 13/10/2026
Earlier this month, Kengo Kuma returned to the GSD to celebrate the release of Kengo Kuma: New Works (Thames & Hudson) in conversation with Grace La, who wrote the book's introductory essay. Thank you to everyone who joined us! hgsd.us/47fCsiM
Kengo Kuma and Grace La are seated on a stage, engaged in a discussion at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The audience is seated and attentively listening.A large audience seated in a modern auditorium listens to a presentation. Two presenters are seated at a table on a stage in front of a large screen displaying the text: "Kengo Kuma, New Works, Positions XXV."A group of people is lined up inside an art exhibition hallway. They are viewing various artworks and framed images displayed on the walls. The space is well-lit with a modern design.A person is standing and showing a book to another person sitting at a table, who is signing it. They are in a room with a bookshelf displaying various colorful books.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“There,” said Toad. “Now my day is all written down.”
Toad's list reads: A List of Things to Do Today: Wake Up (crossed out), Eat Breakfast, Get Dressed, Go to Frog's House, Talk Walk with Frog, Eat Lunch, Take Nap, Play Games with Frog, Eat Supper, Go to Sleep.

From "A List"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Kristin Lewis @kalewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Bonded for Life: The Friendship and Activism of Billie Jean King and Elton John" @nyhistory.bsky.social ❤️ www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/... www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/10/2026
On a trip to the Cooper Hewitt museum, the techno d.j. reflects on her latest album, “New Life,” and on how Michael Jackson and ABBA haunted her Berlin childhood. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Ellen Allien’s Hill of Sound
On a trip to the Cooper Hewitt museum, the techno d.j. reflects on her latest album, “New Life,” and on how Michael Jackson and ABBA haunted her Berlin childhood.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/10/2026
The new Nobel laureate uses finely wrought forms to constrain a terrible excess of feeling. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
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Anne Carson’s Ecstatic Minimalism
The new Nobel laureate uses finely wrought forms to constrain a terrible excess of feeling.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/10/2026
The President’s self-dealing has been well documented. Do voters care—and will anyone ever pay? www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
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Will Donald Trump’s Corruption Matter in November?
The President’s self-dealing has been well documented. Do voters care—and will anyone ever pay?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/10/2026
During more than two decades at Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Avedon transformed the fashion photograph, issue after sensational issue. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
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Richard Avedon’s Defining Early Fashion Shoots
During more than two decades at Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Avedon transformed the fashion photograph, issue after sensational issue.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Overheard on the Victoria Line: "She's a bridesmaid. She needs to start acting like one."
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Elmore Leonard by Daniel Borris, 2012 "He had an acute ear for the stops and starts, the detours, switchbacks and inventive obscenities of conversation." - Nick Kimberley
Head & shoulders shot of the writer with a serious expression on his face.
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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🤨 Why's it so hard to transfer from a number line to a letter line in this city? Secret no. 36 answers a question you may never have thought to ask. #50SecretsofTransit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the #NYTransitMuseum. Join us as we pull back the curtain on New York's transportation system.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My two rescues who rescued me
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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just went a third time. It's a show worth obsessing over.
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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Kramer/Fauci,” now at St. Ann’s Warehouse, again with Thomas Jay Ryan as Larry Kramer and Will Brill as Anthony Fauci, is high on the list of best pieces of NYC theater in 2026. Just superb. Go. 📸 Maria Baranova
Will Brill as Anthony Fauci, left foreground, and Thomas Jay Ryan as Larry Kramer, center, in a sea of bubbles in front of a wall of white lights in “Kramer/Fauci.”
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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have always loved Washington, DC, for various reasons. But a recent visit to the city was a bitter experience. Here is a very personal essay, but one that others will relate to, I know. Anyway, see what you think. www.thenextmove.org/p/our-nation...
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Our Nation’s Capital in the Time of Trump
A walk through Washington pains a lifelong lover of it.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Couple walk in snow, ca 1955 © Saul Leiter
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Toad stood on his head for a long time.
Toad stands on his head.

From "The Story"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*
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Bob Kolker @robertkolker.com · 10/10/2026
My latest, in @nytimes.com: a close look at why dementia science has seemed so stalled out for so long — and what new hopes there are now, finally for progress. 🧠 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/s...
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Will We Ever Understand Dementia?
Since the days of Dr. Alzheimer himself, there has been a dream that severe senility might have an explanation — and a cure. The search for both has never been more urgent.
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Bob Kolker @robertkolker.com · 07/10/2026
I’m thrilled and grateful for this beautiful review of THE VANISHING FAMILY in @newyorker.com 🙏
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Kristin Lewis @kalewis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Will We Ever Understand Dementia?“-Robert Kolker "With the gene carriers,you can get in very early,maybe even before any age-related change is happening,any pathology is present at all...I think it’s going to be a really huge decade.We’re just beginning.”@nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/s...
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Will We Ever Understand Dementia? (Gift Article)
Since the days of Dr. Alzheimer himself, there has been a dream that severe senility might have an explanation — and a cure. The search for both has never been more urgent.
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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I saw “Good Time Charlie” a couple weeks ago in early previews, the night the real Charlie was there. I’m sure it’s changed since then, but it is yet another beautiful Ryan Haddad play. Funny, with a big, dreamy cast, and entirely willing to break your heart and leave you humming “September Song.”
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“It’s a strange world…”
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Kristin Lewis @kalewis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Beauty by Cecilia González-Andrieu @drcecilia.bsky.social www.americamagazine.org/features/202... www.americamagazine.org/features/202...
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In a world where the glamour of evil rules, Catholics must create beauty
If you want justice, work for beauty.
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BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BBC Radio 6 Music Nick Grimshaw Fine art and fashion photographer Juergen Teller chats to Nick about music, his career, and his work featured in the major Tate Britain exhibition The 90s: Art and Fashion.
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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#Interview ‘Old-timey fascism was kept secret. Now you don’t have to hide it’: #MartinMcDonagh, #JohnMalkovich and #SamRockwell on #WildHorseNine McDonagh’s latest film has Malkovich and Rockwell shooting the breeze as CIA agents in 1973 on Easter Island. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
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‘Old-timey fascism was kept secret. Now you don’t have to hide it’: Martin McDonagh, John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell on Wild Horse Nine
McDonagh’s latest film has Malkovich and Rockwell shooting the breeze as CIA agents in 1973 on Easter Island. They discuss grandchildren, swimming with turtles and who shot JFK
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Film Forum @filmforumnyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Read @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social on our indispensable ANDRZEJ WAJDA 100 series (running thru October 22) for Screen Slate: www.screenslate.com/articles/and...
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Andrzej Wajda
The Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, subject of an ongoing retrospective at Film Forum organized on the occasion of his centennial, made nearly 50 features over almost seven decades.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Canada completes its Nobel Prize for Literature Hat Trick! 📚🎩🇨🇦 Saul Bellow (born in Montreal), Alice Munro (born in Wingham, Ontario), and now Anne Carson (born in Toronto). Huzzah! (Everyone is posting this wonderful 2013 portrait by Jeff Brown, but very few with a photographer credit.)
Formal portrait of the poet sitting with her hands together.
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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For the great and gorgeous Lois Smith, who was in the movie “East of Eden” with James Dean, this summer was the time to finally read Steinbeck’s novel. Sometimes the mood doesn’t hit ’til you’re 95. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
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How Reading “East of Eden” Affected Writers and Artists (Gift Article)
With a Netflix adaptation now streaming, Rachel Kushner, Héctor Tobar, Zoe Kazan and others share why Steinbeck’s operatic family saga has stayed with them.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Timeline cleanser: 20 seconds of Lily snoring
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good night, Bluesky Bert Hardy The Elephant By Night, January 8, 1949 At the Elephant & Castle in South London.
A young woman stands against a wall on a dark street.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’” #Paris
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How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's Lennon's 86th birthday so here's that doorway in Hamburg, now behind a fence. Sadly, I'm no Jürgen Vollmer but you get the idea.
John Lennon Rock n Roll album cover Tye same doorway in Hamburg today
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Film Forum @filmforumnyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
CRITIC'S PICK! ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile’ Review: What Is Truth? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/m... Opens tomorrow at Film Forum: buff.ly/kGrbbJU
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‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile’ Review: What Is Truth?
The second half of Julia Loktev’s epic chronicle of independent journalists in Russia is essential viewing.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I will go to Toad’s house,” said Frog. “I will rake all of the leaves that have fallen on his lawn. Toad will be surprised.”
Frog stands at the shed door, rake in hand, gazing at the swirling autumn leaves—ready to tidy up, though nature seems determined to undo his efforts.

From "The Surprise"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*
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Kristin Lewis @kalewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Ol’ Blue Eyes”-Simon Callow “Tormented by his own failures as a parent,above all the death of his son,he focused on tragically afflicted children.As a philanthropist he was able to believe in himself,because the end was more important than him or his private doubts” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Ol’ Blue Eyes | Simon Callow
In 1989 the producer Ismail Merchant and the director James Ivory asked me, as a standing member of their informal company of players, to appear in their
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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dublin usually ranks well on these kinds of lists but I'm not too sure Dubliners *feel* like they live in the 6th best city in the world. (Caveat: I like it here. This is just an observation about how others often talk about the city.)
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The world's top cities for 2026 - and why they stand out
From cultural investment to cutting-edge technology, the 2026 Global Cities Index reveals what makes the world's leading cities such compelling places to live and visit.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/10/2026
The biggest source of inequality in the U.S. is a gaping hole in the tax code—and no one is talking about it, Rogé Karma argues.
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The Biggest Source of Inequality That No One Talks About
Progressives are focused on the wrong tax loophole.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At 194, Jonathan the Giant Tortoise Knows About Aging
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Jonathan the Giant Tortoise Is 194 Years Old. He Just Had His Genome Sequenced. (Gift Article)
Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the genetics of longevity.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scientists unlock the longevity secrets of 194-year-old Jonathan the giant tortoise www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
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The oldest known land animal is 194. How did he get so ancient?
The secret to Jonathan the tortoise’s extreme longevity may be in keeping genes tidy
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