Hannah Giorgis
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Netflix / Everett Collection Unraveling the Oscars’ Foreign-Language-Film Debate
The newly rebranded Best International Film award calls attention to how unfair the Academy’s rules are for filmmakers outside the U.S. and Europe.
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Robyn Beck / Getty John Witherspoon, Black Hollywood’s Wisecracking ‘Pops’
The late actor, who died at the age of 77, was best known for his singular ability to convey fatherly frustration with comedic flair.
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Netflix BoJack Horseman and Women Who Try to ‘Have It All’
In its final season, the Netflix series inventively captures the fatigue—and guilt—that many working mothers experience.
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ABC / Byron Cohen A Simplistic View of a Mixed-ish America
ABC’s Black-ish spin-off joins a new memoir by Thomas Chatterton Williams in presenting a seemingly enlightened but ahistorical view of race.
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Denzel Golatt The Genre-Defying Singer Inspired by Japanese Funk
Berhana, the Atlanta musician behind 2016’s “Janet,” talks about incorporating diverse geographic influences in his debut album, HAN.
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Virginia Sherwood / NBC The Jussie Smollett Episode of Law & Order: SVU Was Surprisingly Nuanced
The show turned a sensational real-life case into a story about the rarity of false reporting and the importance of having compassion for victims.
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Netflix Big Mouth and the Poisoning of Teenage Boys’ Minds
In its new season, the Netflix animated comedy untangles the influences that can lead young men to embrace sexist ideas.
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Will Heath / NBC Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Refreshing SNL Monologue
The first-time host, fresh off an Emmy sweep for Fleabag, provided a welcome shot of cheeky social commentary on an otherwise uneven episode.
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COLE WILSON / The New York Times / ... What Ta-Nehisi Coates Wants to Remember
The writer’s debut novel, The Water Dancer, is a fantastical love story that seeks to illuminate the forgotten emotional tolls of slavery. “This just wasn’t a physical horror. It broke families,” Coates told The Atlantic.
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Phil McCarten / Invision / AP A ‘Ridiculous’ Emmys Night for Fleabag
The acclaimed series created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge swept the comedy category, beating out heavyweights such as Veep and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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POP TV The Sweetly Subversive Marriage at the Core of Schitt’s Creek
One of the Emmy-nominated sitcom’s secret strengths is its portrayal of long-term partnership—as a bond that is as eccentric as it is affectionate.
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STX Entertainment How Hustlers Captured the Excesses of Prerecession Fashion
The film’s costume designer, Mitchell Travers, talks about fur, glitter, and the characters’ changing relationships with wealth.
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STX Entertainment The Welcome Rise of the Stripper Ensemble Film
Hustlers, the new movie anchored by Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu, joins a slew of recent productions that focus on the bonds between dancers.
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Nicola Dove / Netflix The Rom-Com With a ‘Work Less’ Message
Netflix’s Falling Inn Love, starring Christina Milian, is the latest romantic comedy to set up frenetic professional toil as its villain.
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Beck Diefenbach/Reuters For members: Trump’s big housing reform, Jay-Z’s NFL deal, Impossible Burger in grocery stores
Atlantic writers look ahead at their beats.
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Mathieu Bitton / Netflix The Fear in Dave Chappelle’s New Special
The comic’s Netflix show continues a chapter of work that whiffs less of irreverence than of irritation and unease.
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OWN A Rare Show That Explores the Nuances of Black Boyhood
David Makes Man depicts the struggles of its young South Florida–raised protagonist without pathologizing the characters who surround him.
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Lizzie Gill How Black Suffragettes Subverted the Domestic Sphere
Anna Julia Cooper was among the educators who emphasized the power of communal care as a method of addressing larger structural ills.
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Kevin Mazur / Getty Why Jay-Z’s Roc Nation–NFL Deal Is So Puzzling
The rapper’s partnership with the league bolsters his repertoire of social-justice work, but its corporate sensibility sits uneasily with athletes’ more direct forms of advocacy.
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Amazon The Revelations of Meek Mill’s Legal Limbo
Free Meek, the Amazon docuseries about the rapper’s 12-year criminal-justice saga, is an impressive but revealing production that joins other high-profile efforts to address institutional reform.
