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June 23, 2016
Jessica Nordell
Stop Giving Digital Assistants Female Voices
Siri, Alexa, and now Viv all sound like women. That's a problem in real life.
June 22, 2016
Tim Grierson
Swiss Army Man
: No Girls Allowed
The audacious comedy gets surreal about male insecurities—but they’re still the same old sensitive-bro problems.
June 22, 2016
Podcast
Tim Grierson
,
Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 22:
Finding Dory
,
Armageddon
, and
Road to Perdition
June 21, 2016
Michelle Dean
UnREAL
: The Drama of Meaningless Work
The spoof reality show doesn't depict female empowerment, but a toxic office culture.
June 21, 2016
Will Leitch
The Neon Demon:
Shiny, Unhappy People
Beauty isn’t everything in Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest glossy feature. In fact, it’s hardly anything.
June 21, 2016
Josephine Wolff
Why the Humble Notebook Is Flourishing in the iPhone Era
The craze for bullet journaling shows that sometimes pen and paper is best—as long as the results can be Instagrammed.
June 21, 2016
Magazine
Rachel Kushner
Popular Mechanics
How factory revolts inspired a new form of the novel.
June 20, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
The Great British Trade-Off
Martin Parr documents the Brexit threat to the British specialty food market.
June 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Game of Thrones
has chosen violence.
June 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Well, at least one good thing will happen in Cleveland this summer.
June 20, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Best
Game of Thrones
episode yet?
June 20, 2016
Magazine
Steve Featherstone
The Ghosts of Fukushima
It’s been five years since the meltdown forced them to abandon their village. Now they’re going home. Can a town devastated by nuclear disaster be brought back to life?
June 20, 2016
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Pulp Friction
If Barnes & Noble goes out of business, it’ll be a disaster for book lovers.
June 20, 2016
Malcolm Harris
Who Are the Trolls?
A folklore expert tries to understand the people who ruin the internet.
June 17, 2016
Sarah Weinman
Lois Duncan’s Teenage Screams
The author of ‘I Know What you Did Last Summer’ defined teen terror for a generation.
June 17, 2016
Steven Cohen
The War Game That Came in From the Cold
Hector Rene embeds with the U.S. Army to photograph Anakonda-16, a massive, ten-day military exercise in Poland.
June 16, 2016
Adam Gaffney
The Dawn of Antidepressants
Have antidepressant drugs ever truly worked—and does that matter?
June 16, 2016
Francine Prose
How Frankenstein’s Monster Became Human
Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley spent a night telling ghost stories at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland.
June 16, 2016
Navneet Alang
You Can Never Hide From Your Boss
What Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn heralds for the future of work.
June 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
ABC helpfully reminds everyone why interviews with TV actors are usually so boring.
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