Adam Sternbergh
sternbergh.bsky.social
Adam Sternbergh
@sternbergh.bsky.social
culture editor, NYTimes Opinion

novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY

I wear suits now
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Edward Hopper's The Penguin
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
your country’s greatest assemblage of comedic talent could never
The definition of a murderer’s row
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Wild Horses” really is in a category all its own
Wild Horses, but only when performed by The Sundays

youtu.be/x7GE90n6XX8?...
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Wild Horses, but only when performed by The Sundays

youtu.be/x7GE90n6XX8?...
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Do the Right Thing
Blue Velvet
Raging Bull
Die Hard
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Insane detail about the 1977 New York mayoral race that Bella Abzug was gonna be the subject of a big Rolling Stone feature/endorsement that was viewed as possibly the home-stretch push she needed and then Elvis died that week
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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My hometown absolutely floored me this past week. FLOORED.

For safety reasons, I haven’t said much about it. But I’m so damn proud of my family and friends. So proud.
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
the only good thing to come out of X in years
this thread is unbelievable
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Roses are red

The money is spent

My pockets are empty
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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*asking about a 4000 year gap on a resume* now it says here you were in “The Bog”?
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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the polls were stubbornly not moving much for a long time but they're moving now
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pictures at a Revolution

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
the mystery has finally been cracked
If the Devil is __
Then, God is __
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This
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piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
one thing I can confidently say about the American healthcare system is that no one, not a single person, nobody, wants a system that involves more paperwork, more onus for negotiation placed on the end user, more time spent on the phone with healthcare representatives, and more "shopping around"
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
please show me a single human being who wants to watch a podcast host accept an award on live television, you can’t, they don’t exist
The list of eligible podcasts is looking pretty bleak 😟
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Anyway, hot stove LFG!
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Turns out A Serious Man is set in the same world as Burn After Reading.
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
8-2 baby cheeks of gold
for those closely following my butt-dialed fantasy football team the fact that Dak Prescott just hit Jake Ferguson for a TD has gone a long way to sending me to a butt-dialed record of 8-2
um my butt-dialed fantasy football team is now 5-1 and in first place

to reiterate: I am not entirely sure how the rules of fantasy football work
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
are we sure Nuzzi Lizza isn’t a psyop
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM