Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 3hwrote about the American Language www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comFootballese, the Most American VernacularIn N.F.L. commentary, expertise is celebrated, even craved, by the masses. 021
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamVinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i wrote about my reality problem. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comIs What We’re Watching True or False?A.I. is everywhere, and it’s often hard to tell what’s even real. Vinson Cunningham writes about the rise of A.I. in advertisements. 071
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i wrote about my reality problem. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comIs What We’re Watching True or False?A.I. is everywhere, and it’s often hard to tell what’s even real. Vinson Cunningham writes about the rise of A.I. in advertisements. 071
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026i wrote about Grandmaster Flash and the dawn of the hip-hop era: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comGrandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop HistoryIn Grandmaster Flash’s new book, “Birth of a Culture,” the trailblazing d.j. tells his version of how hip-hop began. 041
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamVinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026i wrote about Drake's vision of summer as a bad mood season, INDULGE: www.newyorker.com/culture/song...newyorker.comDrake’s “Janice STFU” on Every CornerWith his new album “Iceman,” the master of the summer banger is not done airing his grievances. 031
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026i wrote about Drake's vision of summer as a bad mood season, INDULGE: www.newyorker.com/culture/song...newyorker.comDrake’s “Janice STFU” on Every CornerWith his new album “Iceman,” the master of the summer banger is not done airing his grievances. 031
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamMax Read @maxread.info · 14/08/2026finally saw obsession and wrote about it as an AI movie www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post... 110515
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamLaura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Regarding the ten minute hate of today, if you want a nuanced look at the experiences of working class kids of color in elite institutions I really loved this one by @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social from a while back: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comPrep for Prep and the Fault Lines in New York’s SchoolsDo programs that help low-income students of color get into selective private schools obscure the system’s deeper inequalities? 111
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/07/2026Tell the old story for our modern times. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...newyorker.comLeBron James: An OdysseyTell the old story for our modern times. 0187
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This week on the podcast PASSAGES: On Morrison, Namwali Serpell and @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social discuss Toni Morrison’s Beloved.buff.lyNamwali Serpell and Vinson Cunningham on Toni Morrison’s BelovedBeloved is a holy space made of words. Across the street from Washington Square Park, in New York City’s historic Judson Memorial Church, Namwali Serpell, writer Vinson Cunningham, and our live aud… 0127
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamCraig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026gonna need you to watch 'earth, wind & fire: to be celestial vs. that's the weight of the world' immediately if you haven't already, thank you www.vulture.com/article/revi...vulture.comQuestlove’s Earth, Wind & Fire Doc Is a Must-seeHe captures what made Maurice White both innovative and self-sabotaging. 18122
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/06/2026The Knicks face the Spurs tonight, and once the final buzzer sounds, we’ll be processing it together on The New Yorker’s Substack. Join David Remnick, Vinson Cunningham, and Louisa Thomas for a live post-game conversation after the game ends. newyorker.substack.comnewyorker.substack.comThe New Yorker | SubstackOne good story, every week, without a paywall. Click to read The New Yorker, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. 192
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I was so worried after Bill Owens quit 60 Minutes last year because that (honorable) departure didn’t get a ton of coverage, didn’t reach beyond the circle of already-interested journalists…. Good for Pelley – the only way to do this was to make a big stink and a huge noise 674693
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 03/06/2026i wrote about the Knicks. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comLessons in Fanhood from the KnicksFor the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are eagerly awaiting the N.B.A. Finals. Vinson Cunningham appreciates the artfulness of the game, but “when the Knicks are on, playing prettily or no... 171
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/06/2026For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are eagerly awaiting the N.B.A. Finals. Vinson Cunningham appreciates the artfulness of the game, but “when the Knicks are on, playing prettily or not, I am a foulmouthed partisan,” he writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comLessons in Fanhood from the KnicksFor the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are eagerly awaiting the N.B.A. Finals. Vinson Cunningham appreciates the artfulness of the game, but “when the Knicks are on, playing prettily or not, I am a foulmouthed partisan,” he writes. 1122
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/05/2026A new slate of cultural offerings presents divergent ideas about the struggles men and boys face today—and how to resolve them. www.newyorker.com/podcast/crit...newyorker.comWhere Do Men Go from Here?A new slate of cultural offerings presents divergent ideas about the struggles men and boys face today—and how to resolve them. 2163
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 27/04/2026Steve Kerr, who coached the U.S. Men’s Olympic basketball team in 2024, explains why he didn’t utilize Jayson Tatum to the level that Celtics fans wanted. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...newyorker.comHas Steve Kerr Had Enough?The Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr on his future, coaching Draymond Green, the potential benefits of eliminating the three-point shot, and whether he might give politics a try. 184
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamMike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Perhaps having a Better Than Perfect sound curated and crafted for you as a teen makes the unavoidable struggle of aging a little more stark. Anyways this is a good essay bsky.app/profile/vins... 021
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamVinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 18/04/2026i wrote about Justin Bieber at Coachella www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comJustin Bieber Offers a Reflective Ode to Bieber FeverBieberchella, as it’s been called, touched on the different cycles of Justin Bieber’s life, leaving audiences with one glaring question: What’s next? 073
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamMax Read @maxread.info · 17/04/2026I wrote an essay for Criterion about "Corporate Thrillers," including Wall Street, The Devil's Advocate, Disclosure, Michael Clayton, and morecriterion.comSinister SynergiesDuring a period of rapid deregulation and accelerating deindustrialization, Hollywood corporate thrillers depicted ambitious heroes gaining admission to a world of C-suites and private jets at the pri... 718832
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 18/04/2026i wrote about Justin Bieber at Coachella www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comJustin Bieber Offers a Reflective Ode to Bieber FeverBieberchella, as it’s been called, touched on the different cycles of Justin Bieber’s life, leaving audiences with one glaring question: What’s next? 073
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamMax Read @maxread.info · 07/04/2026he's doing reality tv promo. you should imagine this music on while you read this www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx9u... 2619
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamVinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 01/04/2026for next week's @newyorker.com i wrote about Savannah Guthrie's excruciating, breathlessly televised stations of the cross. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comSavannah Guthrie’s Excruciating Story, on “Today”The morning-show host recounted the disappearance of her mother, Nancy, and its aftermath in boldly religious terms, as millions of viewers watched. 021
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 01/04/2026for next week's @newyorker.com i wrote about Savannah Guthrie's excruciating, breathlessly televised stations of the cross. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comSavannah Guthrie’s Excruciating Story, on “Today”The morning-show host recounted the disappearance of her mother, Nancy, and its aftermath in boldly religious terms, as millions of viewers watched. 021
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/03/2026“The Arsenio Hall Show” marked the emergence of a younger, less white crowd in the provinces of late night. In an interview with Vinson Cunningham, Hall reminisces about his comedic peers, and what it’s like to be a Black celebrity and “laugher addict.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/5JmnKWnewyorkermag.visitlink.meHow Arsenio Hall Captured the CultureThe actor, comedian, and former talk-show host Arsenio Hall discusses his path from doing magic tricks and telling jokes to creating a TV show for the culture. 35312
Reposted by Vinson Cunninghamjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2026i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people 219127623745
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamSarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 26/03/2026‘Admire the images, swoon at the performances—still, there’s a constant, artifice-exploding whisper: this is real, this is real, this is real.’ An exceptional essay by @vinsoncunningham.bsky.socialcriterion.comKillers of the Flower Moon: A Formal FeelingIn this true-crime epic, Martin Scorsese combines his career-long exploration of amoral gangsterism with a sobering meditation on what it means to live on American soil. 141
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 25/03/2026i am enormously honored to have written an essay for the new @criterion.bsky.social edition of Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon." enjoy—and go get yourself a copy! www.criterion.com/current/post...criterion.comKillers of the Flower Moon: A Formal FeelingIn this true-crime epic, Martin Scorsese combines his career-long exploration of amoral gangsterism with a sobering meditation on what it means to live on American soil. 530044
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/03/2026Jason Bateman excels as the Everyman, reeking of ennui and buried impulses, in the new HBO comic whodunnit “DTF St. Louis,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.com“DTF St. Louis” Peers Into the Suburban Male PsycheJason Bateman excels as the Everyman, reeking of ennui and buried impulses, in the new HBO comic whodunnit, also with David Harbour and Linda Cardellini. 1243
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamSymphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Earlier this week, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Thanks to @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Colm Tóibín, and Jay O. Sanders for an enlightening evening, and to everyone who joined us! (Photo by Nile Scott) 052
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/02/2026When all the thinking is outsourced what's left, asks @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social. Others say that LLMs just help with the brainstorming or the drafting or the revising but when you strip all those things away, we also need to ask what's left. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit... 292
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamLydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Bari Weiss is presenting her plans to the CBS staff today. Weiss quite famously live tweeted a contentious internal meeting at the Times in 2020. I wonder if she thinks her employees are entitled to do the same thing now? 864070
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/01/2026“The existence of so many real and unvarnished images of [Alex] Pretti’s killing posed a problem that Trump’s underlings have tried to patch up with words,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comWitnessing Another Public Killing in MinneapolisVideos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power. 76322
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I wrote a TNY Take about Jane Kramer’s The Founding Cadre, a reported piece from 1970 in which Kramer embedded with a radical feminist CR group for nearly a year— which ended up getting published using pseudonyms, bc the editors found the topic too alarming: www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...newyorker.comEmily Nussbaum on Jane Kramer’s “Founding Cadre”Her startling 1970 article, based on months of reporting on radical feminist pioneers, was an outlier for the period—coolly observational but full of emotion. 26212
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamBrent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Trump and his minions are fine with killing people in plain public view; how many will they kill or maim in secret? Our friend @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social asks the pertinent question. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comWitnessing Another Public Killing in MinneapolisVideos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power. 074
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamVinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 25/01/2026i wrote about watching it, about evidence, about witness. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comWitnessing Another Public Killing in MinneapolisVideos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power. 15023
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/01/2026Donald Trump and his spokespeople use press conferences “to set forth their distorted vision of the future—and, maybe more subtly, to let slip their estimation of the public,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comThe Cruelty and Theatre of the Trump Press ConferenceDuring the President’s second term, he and his staff have made the media briefing his signature rhetorical form. 88029
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamIngrid Zenger @ingrid1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026by @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social 084
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/01/2026Even before Alex Pretti's name was widely known, his public killing was made exponentially more public by its rapid dissemination over social media and the news. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comWitnessing Another Public Killing in MinneapolisVideos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power. 910332
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamMichael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Our ability to participate in witnessing, to corroborate each other’s commonsense, to assure one another that, no, you are not crazy, they did just “fucking kill that guy,” is a threat to the Administration’s assumption of total power… www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comWitnessing Another Public Killing in MinneapolisVideos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power. 0102
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 25/01/2026i wrote about watching it, about evidence, about witness. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...newyorker.comWitnessing Another Public Killing in MinneapolisVideos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power. 15023
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 24/01/2026for next week's @newyorker.com i wrote about the art of the Trump press conference www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comThe Cruelty and Theatre of the Trump Press ConferenceDuring the President’s second term, he and his staff have made the media briefing his signature rhetorical form. 011
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamMax Read @maxread.info · 15/01/2026funniest running bit on twitter is "gentle r kikuo johnson new yorker cover drives idw and tpot types insane trying to interpret it" 321117106
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamJohn Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026www.unpopularfront.news/p/read-max-x...unpopularfront.newsRead Max x Unpopular Front with Vinson CunninghamA recording from John Ganz and Max Read's live video 1171
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamHark Audio @harkaudio.com · 02/01/2026TV finales can feel like saying goodbye to a close friend but, should they really mean so much to us? @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social, Naomi Fry, & Alexandra Schwartz discuss the concept in this fascinating moment from ‘Critics at Large’: harkaudio.com/art-great-tv... 111
Reposted by Vinson CunninghamVinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026this week's edition of Vinson Cunningham's Quiet Storm includes tunes by Nas, Labi Siffre, Sevyn Streeter, Peter Gabriel, Geese, and many others—plus a brief meditation on the increasingly endangered communal function of radio. vcunningham.substack.com/p/be-yourselfvcunningham.substack.comBe YourselfNas, Labi Siffre, Sevyn Streeter, Peter Gabriel, Geese, and much more. 062
Vinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026this week's edition of Vinson Cunningham's Quiet Storm includes tunes by Nas, Labi Siffre, Sevyn Streeter, Peter Gabriel, Geese, and many others—plus a brief meditation on the increasingly endangered communal function of radio. vcunningham.substack.com/p/be-yourselfvcunningham.substack.comBe YourselfNas, Labi Siffre, Sevyn Streeter, Peter Gabriel, Geese, and much more. 062