Perfume Genius Sings the Body Electric
The notion of surrender is at the heart of Mike Hadreas’s carnal and sensual new album, Ugly Season.
The Book That Captures My Life as a Dad
Abbott Awaits makes the everyday aspects of parenting objects of tender observation.
A Lost Trove of Civil War Gold, an FBI Excavation, and Some Very Angry Treasure Hunters
“I’m going to find out what the hell the FBI did and I’m going to expose it to the world.”
It’s Time for Pixar to Move on From Toy Story
Lightyear is the origin story that no one needed.
The Book That Never Stops Changing
What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses
Barry Isn’t a Comedy Anymore. But It’s Become an Even Better Show.
Season 3 of Bill Hader’s HBO series about a listless hitman, which ended Sunday, marked a stark shift toward the show’s darker impulses.
The Books Swallowed by the Black Hole of the Coronavirus
Some spectacular titles had the terrible luck of being released in early 2020. They still deserve our attention.
TikTok Killed the Video Star
MTV turned music into spectacle. The app is doing the opposite.
The Problem of English Identity
And the play that lays bare Britain’s constructed myths
Minority Report Tried to Warn Us About Technology
Steven Spielberg’s film predicted how having more convenience would mean sacrificing personal freedom.
Make America Remember Again
Caroline Edwards’s testimony about the January 6 insurrection was a reminder that words can convey truths that even images cannot.
Life, Literature, This Moment of June
The allure and the friction of city life are never clearer than they are in the summer: Your weekly guide to the best in books
An Ode to My Thesaurus
Truly an essential, indispensable, necessitous volume
White Author, Black Paragons
When writing across cultural divides flattens characters
The Delightful Pretentiousness of Irma Vep
HBO’s wonderfully smart new series may be the most meta show on TV right now.
Why ‘The Watergate Three’ Are Remembered as a Duo
Doing great journalism requires an infrastructure, including a lot of talented people who don’t get bylines. Barry Sussman—the Watergate journalist named neither “Woodward” nor “Bernstein”—was one.
The Vindication of Jack White
An obsessive protector of rock’s past could hold the key to its future.
I Just Wanted to Watch People Get Eaten By Dinosaurs
The cynical logic of Jurassic World: Dominion doesn’t leave much room for what made the original a classic: a sheer sense of wonder.
The Thin Line Between Sickness and Health
Nine books that helped me reframe my relationship to viruses, the most abundant biological entity on Earth
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