When a Single Conversation Can Mean Life or Death
Sarah Polley’s new film, Women Talking, is about “ending a world and creating a new one”—all in the space of a single debate.
The Writer’s Most Sacred Relationship
Creative partnerships can be a challenge for fragile egos—but they also provide a lifeline in difficult times.
A New Year Doesn’t Call for a New You
The drive to entirely reinvent ourselves is never stronger than it is in January.
A Civil War Over Semicolons
The biographer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb, have been arguing with each other for 50 years.
13 Feel-Good TV Shows to Watch This Winter
The most comforting shows to watch during the coldest season
Eight Self-Help Books That Actually Help
These titles are challenging where others are pandering, and open-minded where others are prescriptive.
The Mind-Boggling Grandeur of White Noise
The film is sharply funny, eerily timely, and loaded with movie stars. So why is this blockbuster-size event falling flat?
What Gen Z Knows About Stephen Sondheim
How the late composer’s preoccupation with outsiders has endeared him to a new generation
The 35 Best Podcasts of 2022
The shows that kept listeners refreshing their apps this year
Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?
As an environmental journalist and a parent, I worry that the animals in my son’s bedtime stories will disappear before he learns they’re real.
Eight Books to Comfort You When You’re Lonely
Reading may not be a salve for loneliness, but there’s nothing like the rush of being seen by literature.
Rian Johnson’s Primal Scream
The Glass Onion director on why his sequel to Knives Out is louder and angrier
The Avatar Sequel’s Worst Character Actually Does the Film a Service
A (partial) defense of the most ridiculous addition to the franchise
Remembering the Strange Dream of Lockdown New York
It took a pandemic to imagine a more humane city.
The Dizzying Debauchery of Babylon
Damien Chazelle’s new film is an extravaganza of caustic misery and overflowing movie magic.
How the Lessons of Game of Thrones Were Lost
A new generation of fantasy TV is here. Why is it so bleak?
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2022
The year’s most essential series
‘No One Wants to Talk About Mortality’
The British director Joanna Hogg on death, mothers, and the allure of memoir movies
It’s High Noon in America
In our popular culture and in our politics, we’re returning to the Old West.
SNL Bids Farewell to Cecily Strong
The show delivered a moving goodbye to the 11-season veteran during its Christmas episode last night.
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