Adam Sternbergh
culture editor, NYTimes Opinion
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
- in the heyday of the now disproven “ebooks will kill the physical book” discourse I was always most heartened by the middle school students who’d camp out en masse in the aisles of barnes & nobel with piles of physical books
- essential watch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
- we don’t talk enough about the fact that the consensus #1 NBA draft pick is improbably named Cooper Flagg, which is the name for the lead in a 90s knockoff action film called FLAGG DAY
- "now witness the power of this armed and fully operational mobile McDonald's unit"
- slowly catching up on THE STUDIO and reader during episode 7 I HOWLED episode 8 also a banger and have heard great things about 9
- This is called “committing to the bit”
- [me, during the morning standup meeting]
- wasn’t asked but here’s my answer: I don’t www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...
- from an article on the fastest rising baby names in the country maybe America is trying to tell us something namerology.com/2025/05/10/m...
- For sale: Baby shoes, never
