Recalling the splendid isolation of travel by freighter
As celebrity architects create increasingly fantastical cityscapes, it’s worth remembering why Gaudí remains unmatched.
James Baldwin's The Devil Finds Work, a book-length essay on race and America and cinema, movingly demonstrates that analysis of art can be art itself.
The writer of the 1987 thriller disliked the ending that Hollywood put on the movie. A new live adaptation addresses his concerns—but doesn't fix the deeper problem with the story.
In fact, the idea that the genre needs a savior is silly—and, some writers argue, sexist.
Social media can turn an awkward school discussion into an addictive debate.
In Kenneth Branagh's remake of the classic Disney cartoon, Cate Blanchett explores the difference between cruelty and evil.
In his latest dissent, against the pro-same-sex-marriage finding of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court justice invoked … hippies and fortune cookies.
The man who modernized New York angrily takes on his critics in a 1962 essay.
Scholarly interest in Joss Whedon’s cult classic points to the growing belief that TV shows deserve to be studied as literature.