The Handmaid’s Tale showed the ease with which the unthinkable can become ordinary—a lesson crucial in the age of the Big Lie.
In a new comedy, Emma Thompson plays a woman who finally sees her body, the actor says, “as her home.” Her victory, in a post-Roe world, takes on the dimensions of tragedy.
Caroline Edwards’s testimony about the January 6 insurrection was a reminder that words can convey truths that even images cannot.
How does the classic work of propaganda hold up? And can its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, deliver decades later?
Why are so many people treating it like one?
Sophie Gilbert, Megan Garber, and Hannah Giorgis discuss Hollywood and the way it depicts abortion (or doesn’t).
Sixty years ago, Helen Gurley Brown’s best-selling book promised women sexual freedom. Today, it reads like an omen.
How the comedy, now 15 years old, foresaw Roe’s looming tragedies
It’s all too easy to forget the victims and glamorize the grifter.
Why resisting distraction is one of the foundational challenges of this moment
The Ukrainian president’s dispatches from the streets of Kyiv have doubled as proof of life and missives of solidarity.
The Afterparty is one of a series of works that privilege multiple points of view—leaving us looking for truth among conflicting accounts.
A new group of makeover shows is grappling with a timely truth: Needing help doesn’t make you a failure.
The real horror is the friends we made along the way.
Frasier is a time capsule of its era—and yet, has aged remarkably well.
Yellowjackets, a feminist update of Lord of the Flies, has created a rich world where everyone—and everything—is a suspect.
Can the joyfully escapist Netflix show also argue for the importance of escapism?
The actor and producer and host, who died yesterday at 99, spent eight decades poking fun at those who would underestimate her.
The holiday classic is now 75 years old, and a timely exploration of what happens when all that you’ve relied on fades away.
The prolific writer, who died today at 87, was a penetrating anthropologist of American myths.
Did the finale finally flip over the board?