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October 7, 2016
Will Leitch
The Girl on the Train
: An Unreliable Director
This adaptation of the bestselling book is hazy in a way that’s more confusing than intriguing.
October 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Perversion of Pepe the Frog
In hijacking the amphibian character, the alt-right is defiling a great tradition of racial commentary in cartoons.
October 7, 2016
Gavin Jacobson
Snowden vs. Le Carré
What do John Le Carré's classic espionage novels mean in the age of surveillance?
October 7, 2016
Michelle Dean
Netflix’s
Amanda Knox
Documentary Indicts the Media
But the show falls into the same ethical quandaries as 'Serial' and 'Making a Murderer.'
October 6, 2016
Tim Grierson
The Birth of a Nation
’s Blunt-Force Trauma
The Sundance sensation may not be great art, but its snarling urgency makes it a movie for our times.
October 6, 2016
Sarah Jones
Rachel Dolezal is back.
October 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
Colson Whitehead, John Lewis, and Rita Dove lead the National Book Awards finalists.
October 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Bob Dylan, that's for sure.
October 5, 2016
Angelica Jade Bastién
For Women of Color, the Price of Fandom Can Be Too High
When the geek community is asked to empathize with characters who don’t look like them, the backlash can be severe.
October 5, 2016
Will Leitch
Newtown
: What Happened Afterwards
This documentary about the Sandy Hook shooting is respectful toward the families, but fails to ask any hard-hitting questions.
October 4, 2016
Tim Grierson
,
Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 37:
American Honey
,
Deepwater Horizon
, and
Barry Lyndon
October 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
The guy who doxed Elena Ferrante thinks the people who are criticizing him are “bad people.”
October 4, 2016
Magazine
Tony Tulathimutte
Utopian Kink
Reports from the frontiers of sexual experimentation.
October 3, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
Is Nate Parker really trying to be better?
October 3, 2016
Charlotte Shane
The Sexist Big Reveal
Anonymity allowed Elena Ferrante to make art in a misogynistic world. A male journalist took that away from her.
October 3, 2016
Malcolm Harris
Leave Elena Ferrante Alone
There's no good reason to make a best-selling author the subject of "investigative journalism."
October 3, 2016
Magazine
Elaine Showalter
Fighting Words
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg is speaking out—and what it means for the battles ahead.
October 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
The
NYRB
’s argument for doxing Elena Ferrante is not very good.
September 30, 2016
Jess Row
What Are White Writers For?
For a writer to deny that fiction is political is not only an act of bad faith, but an artistic failure.
September 30, 2016
Will Leitch
Deepwater Horizon
: Fire on the Water
Peter Berg has become the go-to director for the explosive, based-on-a-true story drama.
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