Who’s Afraid of Women’s Pleasure?
A new documentary about the pioneering sex researcher Shere Hite points to the barriers that women face when writing candidly about intimacy and power.
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A Spiritual Manifesto for the Dispossessed
The late Pogues singer Shane MacGowan understood the depths of human despair, a feeling he plumbed on his song “The Old Main Drag.”
Is Journalism Ready?
The press has repeatedly fallen into Donald Trump’s traps. A second term could render it irrelevant.
Four More Years of Unchecked Misogyny
In a second Trump term, women would once again be targets.
Cuatro años más de misoginia descontrolada
En un segundo mandato de Trump, las mujeres volverían a ser sus blancos de ataque.
¿Está preparado el periodismo?
La prensa ha caído repetidamente en las trampas de Donald Trump. Un segundo mandato podría volverla irrelevante.
The George Santos Number That Brought SNL to Life
The now-former Republican representative was a perfect fit for the show’s satire.
We’ve Never Seen Beyoncé Like This Before
The Renaissance concert movie is joyful but jumbled—and less about the star than about her audience.
Let’s Never Do This to Edith Wharton Again
The writer’s deeply emotional architecture is made dully explicit in a new adaptation of The Buccaneers.
May December Exposes the Art of Self-Deception
Todd Haynes’s film is a beautiful, terrible nesting doll of a story with a uniquely twisted core.
She Made the Pop Album of the Year. But Is She a Pop Star?
The 29-year-old singer-songwriter Amaarae is trying to bring wide-screen ambition back in the TikTok age.
A Masterful Depiction of Male Cruelty
For decades, Claire Keegan has been exploring the shabby way the world treats women.
Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Biopic Is Fantastic
Maestro is a wonderful look at the composer that dives headfirst into his brilliant work and complicated inner life.
Hipsters Were Always Hypocrites. Ask Frank Zappa.
Of the late musician’s many records, Over-Nite Sensation best crystallized his cutting satire of our country’s blank-eyed habits.
What Happens When Real People Play Squid Game?
Spoiler alert: They don’t die.
What André 3000’s Flutes Album Is Trying to Tell Us
Listen close.
An Enjoyable Extravaganza About … Napoleon?
Ridley Scott’s take on the French leader is a sample platter of big battles and bristling insecurities.
Jason Momoa’s Manliness Overwhelms SNL
Confronted with its hunky host, the show resorted to simplistic gender categories.
What the Hunger Games Movies Always Understood
The series succeeded not because it had a clear political philosophy, but because it understood the power of entertainment above all.
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