The Vast Bay Leaf Conspiracy
Kelly Conaboy | The Awl
“I appreciate Sohui’s acknowledgment that it’s easy to think bay leaves might be bullshit. It’s easy to think a lot of things that are plainly true, even if a number of chefs are attempting to gaslight the public about them, as if we are unable to draw accurate conclusions from our experiences.”
25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going: Kendrick Lamar
Marlon James | The New York Times Magazine
“Hip-hop has always been about spinning clever fictions, doing what great narratives do: inventing stories that tell the truth. But post-Biggie and Tupac, it’s so easy to fall hard for hip-hop’s insistence on keeping it real that I’m surprised how easily I still fall for it, thinking that ‘Butterfly’ is either confessional or reportage, when it’s neither.”
10 Cloverfield Lane: How J.J. Abrams Made a Secret Sequel
David Ehrlich | Rolling Stone
“It was a true ‘holy shit’ moment in a culture that thrives on spoilers and leaks, but the real dagger was what came next: ‘March 11th. In theaters and IMAX’ … At the same time that Abrams was shepherding Star Wars into theaters and orchestrating the most scrutinized marketing campaign in the history of modern entertainment, he was also secretly plotting a genuine Beyoncé moment.”