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The WNBA Is a Perfectly Choreographed TV Drama

Women’s basketball is bigger than it’s ever been on television, and the player’s association is taking advantage of the spotlight to tell a gripping story about labor.

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Why We Can’t Quit Our Y2K Obsessions

Alice Bolin’s essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it prevents us from engaging with their more noxious elements.

Catherine Lacey’s Disappointing Fusion of Fiction and Memoir

Author Catherine Lacey leans against a couch in New York in March 2023.

Catherine Lacey’s Disappointing Fusion of Fiction and Memoir

Books & the Arts

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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?

Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in “Materialists.”

Celine Song’s Materialists Tries to Subvert the Rom-Com

The filmmaker’s follow-up to Past Lives is cerebral and frank about wealth and romance.