@vcunningham

author of GREAT EXPECTATIONS, a debut novel now in paperback. staff writer and critic, @newyorker. co-host, Critics at Large.

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Joined May 2010
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i am starting a very modest newsletter concern. it's free and will be no great chore to consume. just a playlist culled from my listening and a quotation culled from my reading, every Friday. first edition arrives tomorrow. link below and in my bio. INDULGE
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Boots Riley
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Amazing to be in São Paulo on such a historic night.
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don't go looking for that Jalen Williams video
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thought the chip would make me complacent but somehow I am already pissed at the knicks
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Madisyn Cunningham
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Reese: “I think I rushed a lot of my shots…I’ll be better.” @Winsidr
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Zak Jason@zakjasonOct 24
The Billy Evans dick-measuring contest is over. @vcunningham won. “California brown homesteader dick, horse & buggy dick. A dick that says I live in the house I built. Joan Didion dick. Santa Ana Winds dick. Donner Party dick. Tan speckled kettlebell ass.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

“You Can See Everything” and the Nathan Fielder Effect

Podcast Episode · Critics at Large | The New Yorker · October 22 · 49m

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John Ganz@lionel_trollingOct 23
My gripes with Matt Yglesias. unpopularfront.news/p/throug…

Through a Glass, Smugly

A Critique of Pure Yglesias

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Vinson Cunningham@vcunninghamOct 22
in which i express my dissent re: "You Can See Everything"
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@NewYorkerOct 22
“It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.” newyorker.com/podcast/critic…

“You Can See Everything” and the Nathan Fielder Effect

“It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.”

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Lydia Polgreen@lpolgreenOct 22
Vinson's extended riff on Billy's junk here.... phew.
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in which i express my dissent re: "You Can See Everything"
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Sam Kestenbaum@skestenbaumOct 22
For @Harpers, I gaze into the fires of our collective chatbot madness, and the varieties of visionary encounter now afoot: spirit communion via LLM... the heralding of slop and its generation as mediumship, channeling... the stuff of revelation itself harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…

Communion of Saints, by Sam Kestenbaum

The dawn of an LLM New Age

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in which i express my dissent re: "You Can See Everything"
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“It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.” newyorker.com/podcast/critic…

“You Can See Everything” and the Nathan Fielder Effect

“It’s technically a documentary,” Naomi Fry says of Fielder’s new film about Elizabeth Holmes, “but it seems at times more like a philosophical treatise on the knowability of other people.”

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Fox was out of pocket for that but Holmgren should really work on making himself unthrowable
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Dan Devine
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can confirm: it's still up there
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to radically understate the matter: this is not how i dreamed of garnering my first mention in Puck
Dylan Byers
@DylanByersOct 20
NEW: Bari Weiss Derangement Syndrome puck.news/why-media-reporter… @PuckNews

Bari Weiss Derangement Syndrome

The more nuanced and complicated reality is that Bari Weiss’s CBS News has become a proxy for all the anxieties of the news business itself.

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Vinson Cunningham@vcunninghamOct 19
for this week's @NewYorker, i wrote about the new 60 Minutes. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

The Bari Weiss Effect on “60 Minutes”

CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different.

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for this week's @NewYorker, i wrote about the new 60 Minutes. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

The Bari Weiss Effect on “60 Minutes”

CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different.

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The Bari Weiss Effect on “60 Minutes” | @vcunningham CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

The Bari Weiss Effect on “60 Minutes”

CBS News’ editor-in-chief has pledged to “speak for the seventy-five per cent” of people on the center right and the center left; the reality is different.

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bhagavad gita ass president
*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaoneOct 16
TRUMP: KATIE ZACHARIA WILL STAY IN SOME FORM, BUT MAYBE ANOTHER FORM
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Vinson Cunningham@vcunninghamOct 9
wrote about the American Language newyorker.com/culture/on-tel…

Footballese, the Most American Vernacular

In N.F.L. commentary, expertise is celebrated, even craved, by the masses.

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"Just as our national-defense establishment’s alphabet soup of lethal agencies gets little pushback for its engagements with jargon—its often opaque talk of “threat levels” and “terrorist cells” and the many “bright lines” at whose thresholds diplomacy must end and violence begin—football fans have come to tolerate, and even crave, a surprisingly high level of nerdy, insidery talk." - @vcunningham newyorker.com/culture/on-tel…

Footballese, the Most American Vernacular

In N.F.L. commentary, expertise is celebrated, even craved, by the masses.

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