Why the New York Times obsessively and incessantly keeps conflating art with the making of money when most artists are losing money is not only beyond me, but it’s one of the chief reasons I cancelled my NYT subscription back in 2017. One of my favorite Substackers, Anna Sproul-Latimer has a glorious opening about the sprawling Shteyngart NYT profile this weekend that was more about his watch collection than his new novel.