Troy Patterson’s choices range from Zadie Smith’s essay “Generation Why”?, through Matthew McConaughey’s nihilist scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, David Lynch’s art show, the Kylo Ren lightsaber toothbrush, Greg Tate’s MTV News lament for Prince, Lin-Manuel Miranda doing Alexander Hamilton on Drunk History, artist Cindy Sherman’s Instagram feed, and the La La Land/Moonlight Oscar night fiasco, to Patricia Lockwood’s essay “Malfunctioning Sex Robot” (and 21 — sorry, twenty-one — more). – The New Yorker