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February 4, 2016
Navneet Alang
You Can’t Kill Twitter, Even if It Dies
February 4, 2016
Esther Breger
It’s hard out here for a white Oscar nominee.
February 4, 2016
Eric Russell
The Science Behind Straight Women’s Love for Gay Men
February 4, 2016
Will Leitch
Hail, Caesar!: Song and Dance, What More Do You Want?
The Coen brothers have made their most entertaining movie in years—and also their most impenetrable.
February 4, 2016
MagazineMichelle Dean
Love, Actually
Robert Lowell adored intelligent women and treated them terribly.
February 4, 2016
Gavin Jacobson
Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma’s memoir of his grandparents follows a tradition of haunting elegies by Jewish descendants.
February 3, 2016
Sasha Belenky
Amazon’s retail plans are bigger than a chain of bookstores.
February 3, 2016
Esther Breger
Ryan Murphy has pledged to hire more directors who aren’t straight white men.
February 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
Report: There is “no question” that Raiders great Ken Stabler suffered from “moderately severe” CTE.
February 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
Kanye downgrades Swish/Waves/So Help Me God from “greatest album of all time” to “one of” the greatest albums of all time.
February 3, 2016
MagazineAlexander Chee
Children of the Century
For writers of historical fiction, fact fades and feeling persists.
February 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
Is Amazon about to open hundreds of physical bookstores?
February 2, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Remember when Virginia Woolf called James Joyce a “queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples”?
February 2, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Jamie Vardy keeps Leicester’s fairytale season alive with a stunner against Liverpool.
February 2, 2016
Maggie Foucault
The 2016 PEN Literary Awards shortlist is out.
February 2, 2016
Jason A. Grissom
Why Aren’t More Black Students Identified as Gifted?
February 2, 2016
Molly Osberg
The Stories Sons Tell
Does it matter what kind of father Hunter S. Thompson made?
February 1, 2016
Esther Breger
Pope Francis is making his feature film debut—but don’t call him an actor.
February 1, 2016
Esther Breger
Fox’s Grease: Live made NBC’s live musicals look like amateur hour.
February 1, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Is this photo of Ai Wei Wei posing as the drowned Syrian toddler “powerful” or just kind of stupid?

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