Vinson Cunningham
@vcunningham
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author of GREAT EXPECTATIONS, a debut novel now in paperback. staff writer and critic, @newyorker. co-host, Critics at Large.
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Joined May 2010
RT @aliner: Looney Toons and Late Night TV are always part of what I’ve considered American entertainment. - @vcunningham in this great….
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Podcast Episode · Critics at Large | The New Yorker · 07/31/2025 · 47m
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RT @NewYorker: In May, Malcolm-Jamal Warner put out a video on Instagram. “All he wanted you to know is that, if you think about it, there’….
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The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy.
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RT @MosabAbuToha: Israel is talking about annexing parts of Gaza. Do you understand why they have been demolished Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahi….
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RT @mayascade: something you may not know about me is that i am a hurricane katrina survivor. this year is the 20th anniversary of the st….
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RT @NewYorker: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died last week at the age of 54, was great at playing Theo Huxtable in “The Cosby Show,” “perhaps….
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The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy.
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RT @EyalPress: Beautiful piece by Vinson Cunningham. “He was great at playing Theo, perhaps because he was genuinely a Theo at heart.” http….
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The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy.
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RT @ThomasReeseSJ: Pope Leo says Gaza ‘crushed by hunger’ as Vatican official calls for recognition of State of Palestine | Crux https://t.….
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On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV said he was following the humanitarian crisis taking place in Gaza with “great concern,” saying the civilian population is being “crushed by hunger and continues to be exposed...
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RT @NewYorker: In “The Cosby Show,” Theo Huxtable was a nicely realized character but also a lofty ideal—the meritocratic Black boy par exc….
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RT @LeftOfBlack: Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable | @vcunningham | @NewYorker . The actor, who died last week, carrie….
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The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy.
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RT @NewBlackMan: Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable | @vcunningham | @NewYorker . The actor, who died last week, carrie….
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The actor, who died last week, carried the burden of representing the meritocratic Black boy par excellence, and made it look easy.
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RT @vcunningham: the second edition of my radio show masquerading as a newsletter, Vinson Cunningham's Quiet Storm, will arive at 7pm. stil….
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the second edition of my radio show masquerading as a newsletter, Vinson Cunningham's Quiet Storm, will arive at 7pm. still time to subscribe before it drops. stuff from Clade McKay, Os Mutantes, Shalamar, Burna Boy, and many more. check it out:
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RT @lpolgreen: From an essay I wrote last summer, on the Columbia protests. The kids were right, about Gaza then, and some have paid dearly….
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RT @leloveluck: After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodi….
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Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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RT @vcunningham: VC's Quiet Storm #1: Mingus, Sade, Annahstasia, Dr. King, James Weldon Johnson. .
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RT @mroth78: .@vcunningham “a constant sandstorm of casual lies and destabilizing ambiguity keeps obscuring important facts—the kinds of f….
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CBS and its parent company, Paramount, have set an end date for one of the last public pipelines to some version of the truth.
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RT @ItmeMihika: Loved this commentary on the brain-numbing effects of AI in the @NewYorker . “The preferred state, it seems, is a zoned-out….
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If human workers don’t have to read, write, or even think, it’s unclear what’s left for them to do.
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