Lizzo’s Music Really Is Special
The pop star’s new album continues her heartwarming world-domination plan.
Do Animals Dream?
A new book argues that dreams are a portal to animal consciousness.
You’ve Never Seen Anything Quite Like The Rehearsal
Nathan Fielder’s superpower is pushing any situation into its most awkward territory. In his new series, he goes a step further.
When a Troubling Book Gets a Hollywood Makeover
A slick movie adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing doesn’t just sanitize the story; it obfuscates the questionable morality at the novel’s center.
Netflix’s Persuasion Tries to Have It All
The Jane Austen adaptation aims to be subversive when it could have just been sincere.
‘Netflix Thinks Exactly Like an Old Movie Studio’
In a year of falling subscriber numbers and shaky stock prices, the streaming service is doubling down on expensive, risky blockbusters.
‘Watching for Discomfort’: Mark Leibovich on Reporting His New Trump Book
A Q&A with the author on the various ways the Republican subjects of his new book, Thank You for Your Servitude, revealed themselves
TV’s Best New Show Is a Study of Masculinity in Crisis
The new FX/Hulu series The Bear brilliantly analyzes the ways in which male-dominated environments are set up to fail.
‘Everything About This Boy Was About His Mother’
There’s a troubling logic to the familial relationships in Douglas Stuart’s novels.
Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder
A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie.
Seven Books Grappling With What Writers Leave Behind
When an author dies, their legacy can be left entirely in the hands of their estate.
The Minions Are Good. I’m Serious.
In defense of the babbling little cartoon blobs
Stranger Things Isn’t TV. It’s Something Else.
The escapist sweep of the Netflix show’s story keeps clashing with its winking plunder of archival pop culture.
The Cult Classic That Captures the Grind of Dead-End Jobs
Pop culture tends to romanticize bookstores as workplaces. Imogen Binnie’s Nevada does the opposite.
Maybe Ridding the World of Superheroes Isn’t Such a Bad Idea
Though Thor’s muscles are resplendent in Marvel’s latest film, his heart isn’t in it.
Eight Books in Which Ignorance Is the Point
People are always searching for answers, but not knowing can be its own reward.
The Older Woman Comes of Age
In a new comedy, Emma Thompson plays a woman who finally sees her body, the actor says, “as her home.” Her victory, in a post-Roe world, takes on the dimensions of tragedy.
Books for a Sun-Addled Mind
Popular novels don their summer gear.
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ Belongs to Everyone
What is it about the once virtually unknown song that inspires so many musicians to make it their own?
Marcel the Shell Is the Hero the World Needs
The fragile little adventurer can teach us something powerful about navigating obstacles with grace.