Hannah Giorgis
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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.
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Bettmann / Getty The Magnitude of Toni Morrison
The literary titan, who died yesterday at age 88, wrote black characters with a rare compassion that ripples far beyond her own work.
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Vivien Killilea / Getty Drake’s Troubling Reunion With Chris Brown
The viral music video for “No Guidance” signals the end of a beef between the two men, even as it papers over past misbehavior.
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Meron Menghistab The ‘African Giant’ Challenging Musical Boundaries
With a new album, a solo track on Beyoncé’s Lion King compilation, and a global fan base, Burna Boy is pushing the limits imposed on artists from the continent.
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Disney The Blind Spot of Beyoncé’s Lion King Soundtrack
The singer’s musical accompaniment for the new CGI remake neglects to include any artists from the region that inspired the film—a curious lapse in narrative fidelity.
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Courtesy of 'De Lo Mio' Can a Film Be a Love Letter to a Country?
New movies from the writer-directors Lulu Wang and Diana Peralta explore complex questions about national belonging and communal responsibility.
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Disney Disney’s New Lion King Remake Is Predictably Weird
Jon Favreau’s CGI-heavy version of 1994’s animated classic uses a stellar cast—including Beyoncé, Donald Glover, and Seth Rogen—to uneven effect.
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MTV The Slow, Messy Evolution of LGBTQ Dating Shows
With a new season featuring a “sexually fluid” cast, the MTV competition series Are You the One? bucks persistent trends in reality television.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO Big Little Lies Exhumes the Secrets of Marriage
In the fourth episode of its new season, the HBO series explores the rifts in its characters’ unions—and the feasibility of forgiveness.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters What Gets Lost When Polls Become the Story
As the 2020 presidential-election season gets under way, many journalists are reflecting on how not to make the same mistakes from the last cycle.
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David McNew / Reuters The Biggest Deterrent to Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
Children’s-rights advocates have been working to fix statute-of-limitation laws that stop victims from coming forward later in life.
