obsession

America’s obsession with the Latino vote has become a ritual as slippery and messy as a grunion run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

“Claude Monet: A Life in Letters”—a rich compilation of correspondences produced by five editors, led by Teresa Krasny, and translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie—underscores the artist’s obsession with natural effects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

They’re also the foundation of my current obsession: hibachi-style carrot-ginger dressing, which becomes almost laughably easy when you use frozen ginger and onion cubes, too.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

For the auto industry, this AM radio obsession is maddening.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Or are they simply manifesting the worst aspects of adolescence—an obsession with conformity, group identity, and peer approval combined with an appetite for risk and sensation?

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Her own relationship to the subject provides a kind of narrative service road to Mr. Lowe’s four-lane highway of ultramarathoners and their obsessions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

This immersive installation, like the rest of the Lucas—built not on aesthetics but on nostalgia and spectacle—confuses a collector’s obsessions with genuine vision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Meanwhile, other browsers chitchat about cats, weird vintage finds and their eccentric animal obsessions from childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

The only thing Anorak's Almanac seemed to indicate was that a familiarity with Halliday’s various obsessions would be essential to finding the egg.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline