• Film and TV

    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

     
    By Brittany Allen  May 23, 2025
    TV Writing

    Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

    By Danielle Teller  May 15, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read next if you loved Sinners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 14, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 9, 2025
    Entertainment

    How Reality Television Warps Our Understanding of Political and Economic Realities

    By Eunji Kim  May 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the things that are making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 2, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Influences

    In Praise of the Dark and Innovative Genre-Bending of Twin Peaks

    By Lauren Haddad  May 1, 2025
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in May

    By Emily Temple  April 30, 2025
    The Hub

    Pullman hive, attention! We’re getting one last Dark Material.

    By Brittany Allen  April 29, 2025
    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen’s Legacy Lives on in Rom-Coms

    Hannah Benson on “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” the Newest Edition to the Austen Expanded Universe

    By Hannah Benson  May 16, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that got us through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 25, 2025
    Female Friendship

    In Praise of “Toxic” Female Friendships

    By Ginny Hogan  April 25, 2025
    The Hub

    A literary guide to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

    By Brittany Allen  April 22, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 18, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 11, 2025
    Film

    Drop is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age

    By Olivia Rutigliano  April 11, 2025
    Fan Culture

    How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Continues to Inspire Generations of Fans

    By Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs  April 11, 2025
    Fascism

    Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

    Meredith Hambrock on Women’s Ambition, Nazism, and Patriarchy on the 60th Anniversary of a Classic Film

    By Meredith Hambrock  April 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are a few things that are getting us through the week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 4, 2025
    Politics

    Republicans in Congress Are Going After a Free and Independent Media

    By Aron Solomon  April 3, 2025
    Radio

    On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever

    By Steve Oney  March 31, 2025
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in April

    Small Things, Big Things, Scary Things

    By Emily Temple  March 28, 2025
    Going Viral

    Life After One-Word Virality: Yes, I’m the Person Who Came Up With #Scandoval

    By Hannah Selinger  March 26, 2025
    Literary Tourism

    Deserted Beaches, Lost Souls: On the Beautiful Emptiness at the Heart of White Lotus

    By David Barnes  March 17, 2025
    Book Covers

    What Would These Iconic Movies Look Like As Books?

    By Matt Stevens  April 29, 2025
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