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Stephen Colbert in New York Cith on April 27, 2026

What We Have Lost With The Late Show

There may be a day again when TV executives have the backbone to support a show like Colbert’s. But The Late Show will be gone.

A close-up portrait of the writer and sexologist Shere Hite in 1987

The Sexologist Who Taught Us How to Talk About Women’s Orgasms

It’s been 50 years since the publication of The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality. The legacy of its author, Shere Hite, is everywhere.

Scott Bradfield

The Crimes Georges Simenon Declined to Investigate

George Simenon smoking a pipe at his writing table in Epalinges, Switzerland, 1966

Scott Bradfield

The Crimes Georges Simenon Declined to Investigate

Books & the Arts

A tradwife, dressed in the typical early 1900s stuffy full skirt and apron reserved for rough domestic labor, stands trapped in a frontier-style cabin doorframe, which doubles as a smart phone screen prison. Mouth agape, her arms are pressed up against the glass of the phone screen in anguish whilst surrounded by farm livestock and tools, representing both the ironic harm and self-imprisonment perpetuated by the modern tradwife influencer, and the real harm done to women since the beginning of patriarchy.

Caro Claire Burke’s Thriller Captures a Tradwife’s Quiet Discontent

In Yesteryear, an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.

Matthew Rhys stars in Widows Bay

Widow’s Bay Is a Menacing and Hilarious Mash-up

At a time when much TV recycles familiar formulas, the Apple TV series feels like something new.