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January 8, 2016
Sasha Belenky
You oughta know: Alanis Morissette is going to be an advice columnist.
January 8, 2016
Elaine Teng
BAFTA continues its desperate quest to be an Oscar forecaster.
January 8, 2016
Maxwell Neely-Cohen
NBA Twitter is Changing the Way We Watch Sports
The NBA is tailor-made for social media—will that help it supplant the NFL as America's game?
January 8, 2016
Laura Reston
A new book suggests that Marie Antoinette had two illegitimate children with a Swedish diplomat.
January 8, 2016
Alison Kinney
How the Klan Got Its Hood
Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened.
January 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Life is just one vile f*cking task after another, but HBO says the Deadwood movie is happening so maybe things aren’t so bad.
January 8, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Happy 69th birthday, David Bowie.
January 7, 2016
Adam Peck
Major League Soccer wants to be taken seriously, so it sold part of its newest expansion to Will Ferrell.
January 7, 2016
Navneet Alang
The Internet Isn’t Obsessed with Jennifer Lawrence. “The Internet” Doesn’t Exist.
January 7, 2016
Adam Peck
Daily fantasy sports are exactly as big a sham as you think.
January 7, 2016
Suzy Khimm
No, a monkey can’t copyright a selfie.
January 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
David Bowie still has buttons for eyes in the second nightmare-inducing video from his new album.
January 7, 2016
MagazineMiranda Popkey
Iris Murdoch’s Tangled Life and Letters
A new collection of the novelist’s correspondence reveals her overlapping, passionate relationships.
January 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
Netflix claims its most watched movie of all time is that Adam Sandler movie everybody quit because it was racist.
January 6, 2016
Bijan Stephen
A warlock in Mexico has predicted that Donald Trump will not be the 45th president of America.
January 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
Tens of thousands of people are watching a puddle on Periscope right now.
January 6, 2016
Maggie Foucault
Uber’s reign of terror continues in San Francisco.
January 6, 2016
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Where’s Literature’s Class Diversity?
For writers, socioeconomic class is still hard to talk about.
January 6, 2016
Jeet Heer
The world’s most prestigious cartooning festival is facing a boycott over sexism.
January 6, 2016
Jeff Taylor
The Secret to All Great Art Forgeries
A convicted forger shares his secrets.

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