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Lola Petticrew trying on a wedding dress and veil in the TV show Furious.

In Furious, The Serial Killer Is Not The Real Villain

In the new Hulu show, both the killer on the loose and the detectives pursuing her are righteously angry women.

Colson Whitehead in France in 2024

Colson Whitehead’s Long Con

The seasoned criminals of “Cool Machine” adapt to the chaos, striving, and gentrification of the 1980s.

Why Does the World Put Up With the Dollar?

A steamroller with the front roller depicted as a roll of $100 bills

Why Does the World Put Up With the Dollar?

Books & the Arts

An episodic image from the Camp Miasma movie showing actresses Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder with blood on their clothes while standing in a grocery store aisle.

Jane Schoenbrun’s Love Letter to Teen Horror

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is gently eerie and filled with longing.

A black and white photo of Jacques Derrida looking over his shoulder, photographed in Ris-Orangis, France, in 1988

Briallen Hopper

The Case for Sticking With French Theory

As a student, Emily Eakin was fascinated by Derrida, Foucault, and their peers but found them incompatible with the real world. Did she give up too soon?