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Beatrice Loayza

The Frankensteined Feminism of The Bride!

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s post–#Me Too take on The Bride of Frankenstein is both energetic and baffling.

The cast and crew of Best Picture winner “One Battle After Another” pose backstage at the 98th Oscars, on March 15, 2026

The Last Human Oscars?

This year’s show was both steeped in nostalgia for what the Oscars used to mean and bristling with ambivalence about the shape of things to come.

The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own

Illustration of the book A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf with a magn

The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own

Books & the Arts

Photo collage featuring Bernie Goetz, the “subway vigilante,” layered with New York City subway imagery and the headline “Fear; Mugging. Shoots 4,” referencing the 1984 shooting on a New York City subway train.

Kim Phillips-Fein

The Enduring Vigilante Credo of Bernie Goetz

How the subway shooter and his defenders honed the politics of fear and grievance

Illustration of a roulette wheel and casino patrons looming over one of their hands holding the Earth, symbolizing a dice and gamblings growing influence spreading from sports into the broader world and news media.

Jacob Bacharach

How Gambling Ate the World

In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.