The Best, Most Inaccessible Show on Television
Much like “Twin Peaks,” “The OA” is a visual vortex that raises more questions than it answers.
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Fat and Happy
Lindy West, the inspiration for the new Hulu series "Shrill," helped redefine the way we see and treat fat people. Can her ideas translate to television?
In Search of Generation Z
An unscrupulous, money-hungry marketing industry helped define the millennials, often with wildly inept results. And now it's getting to work on the next cohort.
The Act Illuminates a Lethal Bond
A new drama about the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard renders an abusive relationship with brutal clarity.
How the Cold War Defined Scientific Freedom
The idea that liberal democracies shielded science from politics was always flawed.
Jordan Peele’s “Us” Goes Down the Rabbit Hole of Identity
His sophomore effort, featuring a rampaging gang of doppelgängers, radically expands the themes of his film debut "Get Out."
Who Said It: Beto O’Rourke, Howard Schultz, or a Punk Rock Band?
A multiple-choice quiz on some of the great issues of our time
Adventures in Modernism
The unlikely, energizing friendship of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport
What Was the Foodie?
Food culture has never been bigger. It's also never been more controversial.
The Dispossessed
Édouard Louis confronts the French elite’s contempt for the poor.
The Outsize Imagination of Orson Welles
Mark Cousins’s documentary captures the ambition of the young director, who learned, among the skyscrapers of Chicago, to look up.
The Branding of Frida Kahlo
Can the artist’s things tell us what drove her?
The Universe According to Hilma af Klint
A pioneer of abstraction, the Swedish artist made mysterious, cosmic paintings her life’s work.
With Michael Jackson, It’s Different
Why his fall from grace implicates all of us
In Search of Brooklyn’s Queer Past
Hugh Ryan’s book traces a largely forgotten history.
In the Future, No One Deserves an Oscar
The debate between Steven Spielberg and Netflix misses the real problem facing filmmaking in America.
How Eve Babitz Found Home
A new biography evokes the enchanted sprawl and smog of Los Angeles in the 1970s.
Who’s Afraid of The Prodigy?
Remembering Keith Flint and the techno-apocalyptic aesthetic that dominated pop culture at the turn of the millennium.
The Potency of Republicans’ Hamburger Lie
The GOP's latest attack against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal is dishonest. But history shows why it might work.
A Single Life Full of People
Briallen Hopper elevates the relationships American culture has overlooked and deflated.
