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The Shocking Poignance of Kanye West's Yeezus
Could his most abrasive release yet actually be a sweet fable about true love?
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Could his most abrasive release yet actually be a sweet fable about true love?
Paramount
Independent of its film adaptation, Max Brooks's 2006 novel World War Z is high literature: a case study in what mankind gains when forced to confront annihilation.
A philosophy scholar investigates six dumb lines of logic—and one really compelling one—for opposing performance-enhancing drug use among MLB players.
Reading the scholarly literature on how changing ideas about women have affected the leading ladies of Superman
Our roundtable discusses the 11th episode of the sixth season.
The most intriguing articles about entertainment we've come across in the past seven days
And with three games left in the series, can the Spurs make a final push past a resurgent Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh?
The reboot, from director Zack Snyder and co-writer Christopher Nolan, is thoughtful, ambitious—and less fun than it might have been.
Netflix
A conversation about the show's sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-queasy identity politics
The world's largest film industry—that'd be India's—is largely barren of the superhero and spaceship films that dominate Hollywood. What, exactly, accounts for the difference?
The last time a non-pro made a deep run at the Open was in 1971, when college golfer Jim Simons almost earned a spot in a playoff alongside Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino.
MAD
New York's Museum of Arts & Design recent "Take One / Leave One" exhibit showed what happens when the visitors get to play curator.
AP
Major League Baseball's soon-to-retire commissioner may have seriously damaged his own legacy by escalating the BioGenesis scandal.
Graphia
The human desire for conversation often gets left out of the discussion about how the Internet has empowered amateur writers.
The legendary Bulls and Lakers leader's new book finally enlightened me to Jackson's lifelong dedication to the game—and to the logic behind his pop-Zen mumbo-jumbo.
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James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.