Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
@cmontefiore
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Writing for NYT, The Guardian, Monocle & The Spectator on arts, culture & more. Formerly reporting from Beijing & Sydney. Find me on air @Monocle24
New York, New York
Joined October 2011
This is a masterpiece. A must read for anyone with the faintest interest in China, also America's relationship with China, and the whole question of empire in the contemporary world.
Barnes & Noble has a 25% off sale through tomorrow for book pre-orders for members. This is a chance to get my new book, At the Edge of Empire. It's an epic work of memoir and reportage spanning 80 years, from my father in Mao's army to China's rise today: https://t.co/FNk8VSGgYX
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I wrote about Sara Petersen's high-level momfluencing for @thebafflermag (always good to work with Jess Bergman) and I quoted @cmontefiore, @k_pendergrast, @kjezermorton, @kait_tiffany, @alvagotby, @sophiehbishop, & @brookeerinduffy; art by Lillian Ansell.
thebaffler.com
The fantasy sold to us by momfluencers is so potent than even a recent critical book on the industry succumbs to its dubious charms.
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NP 'Intelligence' is out now, with pieces/interviews/artwork by @TomChatfield @marinab52 @philosophybites @myishacherry @patstokes @cmontefiore @StudioCarreras @Russel_Herneman @pabloauladell @plunkert, Antonia Case, André Dao, Mariana Alessandri, Howard Gardner, Zan Boag.
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"The loveliest pieces are deceptively simple." @cmontefiore for @TheSpectator Georgia O’Keeffe wants you to take your time
thespectator.com
It is, astonishingly, the first retrospective MoMA has done on Georgia O’Keefe since 1946. As such it is long overdue
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This is closing weekend of Last Room, a play I wrote inspired by @Bourdain. We sold out every show. The cast was incredible, the audiences generous and engaged. It's been the most rewarding creative experience of my life. Huge thanks to all involved
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Lovely interview by @cmontefiore of pet portraitist and West Village icon Mimi Vang Olsen https://t.co/yP7Jo8kjym
thespectator.com
Mimi Vang Olsen operates in the West Village equivalent of a goldfish bowl. She’s whimsical and eclectic and represents a bygone era
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Students at Staley High School in Kansas City, Missouri, walked out of class on Tuesday to march for Ralph Yarl, their Black classmate who was shot twice on Thursday by an 84-year-old white man after going to the wrong address to pick up his brothers. https://t.co/JSMRtJbEVF
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INT. OFFICE - MARCH 2022 Dave (talking to self): Oh wow, this guy is amazing. It says here he’s the “living Sherlock Holmes.” Narrator (VO): He wasn’t. My latest for @NYMag
https://t.co/2JHy6tF73Z
nymag.com
Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler at murder trials, at forensic conferences, and on true-crime TV. In reality, he was a fraud.
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Defending parental rights isn't enough. Children should not be cashed in on. "We’re seeing the problems of child actors amplified because... it’s not a kid portraying a character, it’s a kid’s actual life being exposed for entertainment." @cmontefiore
aeon.co
We have laws to protect children from factory work. Why aren’t they protected from parents who monetise their lives online?
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"Momfluencers aren’t offering what they purport to offer: an idyllic family, attainable for everyone. They’re airbrushing their lives to fit consumerist ideals, and co-opting their children as props in order to sell, and receive, material goods"
aeon.co
We have laws to protect children from factory work. Why aren’t they protected from parents who monetise their lives online?
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When mothers put little girls at the centre of their feeds ‘there is a slightly higher amount of male followers’ @cmontefiore on top form today. https://t.co/YaN4hwsaWw
aeon.co
We have laws to protect children from factory work. Why aren’t they protected from parents who monetise their lives online?
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we love cult stories, probably bc on some level we know what to expect. but this latest @gauveyherbert joint is unlike any other. it's much, much more unnerving:
esquire.com
At the age of 19, Jeff Gross fell under the sway of a much older, charismatic Svengali. Decades later, his life is unrecognizable. What the hell happened?
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What is love? The new edition of NP is out now, with pieces from DBC Pierre, John Armstrong, Mariana Alessandri, André Dao @cmontefiore @patstokes @marinab52 @TomChatfield @carriejenkins @matthewtbeard + interviews with Susan Wolf & @wkeithcampbell.
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The 'Identity' edition is out now with articles by @philosophybites @marinab52 @oliverburkeman @myishacherry @TomChatfield @cmontefiore @patstokes @ockhamsbeard DBC Pierre, André Dao, Mariana Alessandri. Interviews with Kate Eichhorn & Eric Olson.
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INT. BOYS LOCKER ROOM - 1995 ME: What'd you do last summer? MIKE (awkward): I went to Camp Shane. ME: What's that? MIKE: It’s…One night we raided the kitchen, mixed flour with water, and ate the paste. ME: 😯 26 years on, my latest for @BW
https://t.co/AP3eGMXthP
bloomberg.com
For five decades, as the children at Camp Shane shed pounds, made friends, and found romance, a fierce succession drama was playing out.
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'The prison looked and felt like the scene of a horror movie about a perverse site for human experimentation; a floodlit laboratory in the middle of nowhere.' Thank you @cmontefiore for this piece on @GuardianAus
theguardian.com
After fleeing persecution in Myanmar, Ealom was detained in a ‘torture camp’. Using tricks learned from Prison Break, he snuck his way out
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'Energy' is out now - pieces by DBC Pierre, @myishacherry @philosophybites @marinab52 @TomChatfield @cmontefiore @patstokes @ockhamsbeard André Dao & Tim Olds + interviews w/ @jimalkhalili @casparhenderson. Artwork by @studiopatten @StudioCarreras @alvarotapiah @Russel_Herneman
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INT. BASEBALL HEAVEN Plastic trophies everywhere. MANAGER: We followed any court orders we got. ME: Yeah, but what *happened*? His eyes narrow. MANAGER: Whatever happened between those two guys happened between those two guys. My latest @esquire
https://t.co/ST8MZVZxSn
esquire.com
On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts, took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same.
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INT. BATHROOM - DAY Richard Couto, horse meat vigilante, trims his wig disguise. ME (V/O): His paranoia was actually quite justified. COUTO: All these mofos know who I am, and what I look like, and they don't like me. Mini doc for my latest piece @BW
https://t.co/2erNuNMSgF
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INT. BAR - NIGHT FRIEND: Thieves are stealing pet horses in South Florida. ME (laughing): For what, pony rides? Friend shakes his head slowly. ME: 😲 My latest for @BW
https://t.co/Ggwx8VW6Gz
bloomberg.com
From his secret compound, Richard Couto stages undercover buys to bring down unlicensed slaughterhouses. Police say they’d be happy to work with him, if only he’d follow the rules.
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