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Week One picks

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Zohran Mamdani: For Arsenal, the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present

A personal essay about Arsenal, memory, and how football can make old loyalties feel newly alive.

Zohran Mamdani - The Athletic - Culture / Sport

The Idea Review - 3 mo ago

The latest long-form conversation from The Idea Review, moving between recent cinema and the bigger cultural ideas underneath it.