will Tavlin
@tavlin.bsky.social
writer, work in @nymag.com, @newrepublic.com, @nplusonemag.com + more willtavlin.com
I have a new essay in the latest issue of @nplusonemag.com about the last Sundance in Park City. In print, online, now unpaywalled www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...
Resort to Boulder | Will Tavlin
Among filmmakers, dread over money seemed to outweigh any sense of buzz. By the first weekend the lack of major sales had already become a central topic of conversation. As it happens, two of the best...
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Now out from behind the paywall: @tavlin.bsky.social’s journey to the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, from our Spring 2026 issue.
Resort to Boulder | Will Tavlin
Among filmmakers, dread over money seemed to outweigh any sense of buzz. By the first weekend the lack of major sales had already become a central topic of conversation. As it happens, two of the best...
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One of @nplusonemag.com's very best issues ever is almost here, featuring journeys to mountaintops, artificial islands, fish processors, William Gass's interior life, and much more. Subscribe to read it as soon as it's out—20% off w/ discount code EXCURSIONS. www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/
n+1 Issue 53: EXCURSIONS is almost here! Featuring Will Tavlin at Sundance, Mina Tavakoli at sea, Grace Glass in Alaska, Morley Musick in ICE-raided Chicago, Nicholas Dames on William Gass, Dennis M. Hogan on Greg Grandin—and much more. Subscribe by May 4 to read it in print.
I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...
Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
Movie studios have given in—and the streaming giant now controls the future. That’s bad for pretty much everyone.
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I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...
Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
Movie studios have given in—and the streaming giant now controls the future. That’s bad for pretty much everyone.
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German translation of "casual viewing" out now from @woz.ch www.woz.ch/wobei/26-1/n...
Im Reich der Kacheln
Filme wie Spültabs: Wie Netflix sein Streamingimperium aufgebaut hat.
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Reminder that Penske Media employees are obligated to post about the Golden Globes. You’re not.
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.
Who Is Mubi For?
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.
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"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart." www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
Who Is Mubi For?
The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.
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I have a new piece in the latest @nymag.com about the crisis at Mubi www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
Who Is Mubi For?
The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.
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Gaza has shown governments around the world just how much they can get away with when it comes to silencing the press,” Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. Will other countries follow suit? www.cjr.org/feature/reci...
Recipe Book: What the press crisis in Gaza portends.
What the crisis for press freedom in Gaza portends.
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a good, smart piece on Netflix www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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Kara Swisher@karaswisher.bsky.social · 8mo agoOh no not that: “Driving all this, Mr. Sarandos has been the leading evangelist for giving the consumer control, more options, greater ease” and “Netflix was focused on volume and scale, rather than wooing talent with expense accounts and private planes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...
Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs | A. S. Hamrah
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also
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I recommended some books for this year's bookmatch. Take the quiz already
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 9mo ago🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets a personal chatbot. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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“The retired general [said] more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is…close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda.”
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
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For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point. Read the report by Adam Piore. www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
A Tipping Point at CBS News
“Who would have thought this is the piece that would get me fired?” Bill Owens, the former executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in the screening room. For the past year, CBS journalists have been up...
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“'What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?' Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?" www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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This is the most entertaining thing I’ve read in some time, and extremely insightful about the coroprate bland-ification of American life.
A. S. Hamrah@hamrahrama.bsky.social · 11mo ago@nplusonemag.com spoke with me about the dreaded Cracker Barrel rebrand. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Lisa Borst and I spoke to @hamrahrama.bsky.social about the new Cracker Barrel logo www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Haunting of Cracker Barrel | A. S. Hamrah, Will Tavlin, Lisa Borst
Semiotically, it's detached from all these kinds of things that it was originally designed for. But this kind of sign was always part of the corporate blandification of the American travel experience....
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As long as we’re on the subject of Netflix and movies (however reluctantly!) I recommend this piece by @tavlin.bsku.social about why so many Netflix movies suck: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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If you're near a landlord, go put your hand in his pocket for no reason
He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”
Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church
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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts
Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery
A Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him.
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