brady

The Fiery Mania of Dijon’s “Baby” The album’s frantic, unruly nature aims to communicate the madness of living with big feelings—emotions that are difficult to process and to hold to the light.

wrote about the stunning dijon album for the new yorker:
www.newyorker.com/culture/pop-...

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What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025? “I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consisten...

catch me on the new yorker's political scene podcast, in conversation with my wonderful editor Tyler
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

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What Happened to the Trump Resistance? If the President’s first term was colored with protests and hashtags, his second has so far been characterized by a lack of dissidence.

my latest for @newyorker.com — what was the "#resistance," anyway? why did it fail to generate large-scale social and political change? & why are the democrats down to run back the same failed strategy/messaging? this and more:
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Hollow Allure of Spotify Wrapped This year’s recap, with A.I. bots and uninspired presentation, revealed a company that seems chiefly concerned with profit margins and squashing its competition.

When social-media users and tech reporters, en masse, spurned this year’s Spotify Wrapped, the referendum had an air of epiphany: was knowing how many minutes we listened to music worth all the data mining and craven appeals to our vanity?

LARB Quarterly #43: Fixation | Los Angeles Review of Books

hello i have a short story coming out in the winter issue of @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/edition/fixa...