Around another 30% of these jobs are split between a number of marginalized groups and ethnic minorities, but the students are not protesting these. This leaves only about a third of the country’s most prestigious jobs—those most likely to provide the opportunity for upwards social mobility—for the thousands of Bangladeshi students who graduate every year. … Read more
Industry’s first season was a rare and seismic television event that united culture journalists and finance bros alike. United, that is, in their jaw-clenching displeasure, induced by the antics of the show’s characters. The banking drama’s sophomore season was an easy follow-up—sewing back together the detritus left by the Season 1 finale, and then quickly … Read more
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A cheeky bit of chaos has descended on the Hamptons this summer, courtesy of the artist Liliana Porter. Her new installation, called The Task, takes up the ground floor of the Dia Art Foundation’s space in Bridgehampton. In her theatrical arrangement of miniature figurines amid detritus, tchotchkes, and other found objects, Porter creates one surreal … Read more
I think I might have experienced national pride for the first time in my life this week—something that’s very rare for us self-loathing Brits. I’d gone down a TikTok rabbit hole watching videos of tourists on holiday in London going to pubs to watch England play in the Euros semifinals. All of these clips were … Read more
Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s pulpy pageturner of the same name and directed by The Undoing’s Susanne Bier, the six-part murder mystery is set to follow “Amelia Sacks (Behind Her Eyes’s Eve Hewson), a bride marrying into one of Nantucket’s wealthiest families. The groom’s mother Greer Garrison Winbury (Kidman), a famous novelist, spares no expense on … Read more
Imagine having a job you couldn’t quit. One that means you’re under constant pressure to be perfect, to overachieve and to please everyone at once, even when you’re completely overwhelmed. Sound familiar? Then, like me, you might have eldest-daughter syndrome; congratulations on losing the birth-order lottery! It might not be an official medical condition, but … Read more
Given how wildly expensive most things in Manhattan are—from a bagel, right on upward—the notion of actually owning property here can seem downright absurd. But selling New York City real estate is broker Ryan Serhant’s whole deal and the subject of a brand-new Netflix series, Owning Manhattan. (Basically, think Selling Sunset, but not in Los … Read more
A few months ago, as I was leaving the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles, I noticed something unusual. When a comedy set is over, I’m used to seeing audiences file out of the venue looking mildly relieved to be free. But the people at Trans-It Girls, a show put on by Hayden Johnson and Nori … Read more
Last summer, Kim Kardashian posted an Instagram Story that showed a picture of Snoopy with the words “I ain’t passed the bar, but I know a lil’ bit” above him—the Jay-Z lyrics a nod to the fact that, despite training to become a lawyer since 2018, she still has yet to qualify. Now, though, she’s … Read more
Like any millennial woman who grew up chewing on plastic Polly Pocket clothes (It’s a thing!), I was excited when I first heard, back in 2021, that the teeny, tiny doll would center a huge Hollywood movie starring Lily Collins and helmed by none other than Girls creator, Lena Dunham. Yet when I read yesterday … Read more
