Being a writer, poet, or artist is having a massive moment. Pinterest has predicted “poetcore” as a defining trend for 2026; a new “literary it girl” seems to emerge every few months, each with a breakout bestseller; the aesthetics of the “writer in Paris,” the “weird art school girl,” circulate with increasing velocity online.
“Passata Remoto” is an Italian term for events or actions in the remote past that may not necessarily hold relevance in the present.
Egghead Republic is a surreal satire set in a reimagined 2004, where the Cold War culminated in an atomic bomb being dropped on Soviet Kazakhstan.
Something uncanny has procured itself in the cultural consciousness of American media in the past week, a tonal shift that, although unsurprising given the current political climate, feels jarringly regressive and reactionary; the tipping point, undoubtedly, being American Eagle’s latest campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney as the white all-American temptress clad in denim.