Jacqui Shine
I'm a writer.
Handy with a metaphor.
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Pacific Standard
'The Monkey is OK!': How 'Law & Order: SVU' Tackled Animal Rights
Since the flagship show debuted in 1990, Dick Wolf's Law & Order franchise has fully saturated the American airwaves. The original Law & Order and the Law & Order: Criminal Intent spinoff ended in 2010 and 2011, respectively, but both appear in cable syndication at all hours. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, now in its 19th year on NBC, focuses on a fictional New York Police Department sex crimes unit. Mariska Hargitay has played the role of Detective (now Lieutenant) Olivia Benson since it...
The New York Times
Letter of Recommendation: The Rothko Chapel
A quiet place for experiencing the grief of solitude.
The Awl
Bonfire of the Inanities
So gay! So girly! The history of the Styles section of the New York ‘Times’—and the real New Journalism.
longreads.com
Percy Ross Wants to Give You Money!
He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it.
Slate
Together With the Kuklapolitans
In the middle of the past century, a gentle crew of puppets united the TV watchers of America.
The New York Times
The Announcements Were Once Déclassé. Then Came the Astors
It was the marriage of a Schermerhorn to an Astor that changed everything.
Vulture
The Miracle of Hair on The People v. O.J. Simpson: Brow Toupees, Bad Beard Trims, and ‘the World’s Tiniest Wig’
Everything you didn't even know you wanted to know.
LA Review of Books
Won’t Get Fooled Again: Malcolm Harris’s “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials”
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THE WORD “millennial” was first pressed into service as a noun in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book, Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069. (Strauss had, by the time of the book’s publication already left an indelible mark on American culture: in 1981, he helped to found The Capitol Steps, the live performance troupe that delivers light political satire through mildly bawdy musical parodies drawn from the American songbook — e.g., “Papa’s Got a Bra...
LA Review of Books
The Devil in the Shape of a Preschool Teacher
A review of Richard Beck's WE BELIEVE THE CHILDREN for the L.A. Review of Books.
BuzzFeed
This Public Shaming Is Not Like The Other
Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed is a critique of the social media shaming plague — but it’s really a book that highlights Ronson’s own anxieties about giving voice to the historically powerless.