Seven years ago,
New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino coined the term “Instagram Face.” Now we talk about how current beauty standards are changing our relationship to reality. “It seems more explicitly anti-human right now than ever before,” she tells Tonya Mosley. “There seems to be something that’s dove-tailing with the age of AI.”
Also, we hear from Lee Sung Jin, creator of the Netflix series
Beef. The second season is a story about class and blackmail at an exclusive country club. He talks about how he has pulled ideas from his own life, and his experience working in writers rooms as the only Asian person.
Film critic Justin Chang reviews the new erotic comedy
I Want Your Sex, starring Olivia Wilde.
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