Making Peace With Jane Austen’s Marriage Plots
Her work has done more than any other author’s to influence what “happily ever after” means in culture.
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Netflix The Defenders: Marvel's TV Universe Clicks Into Place
The gang's all here in a Netflix limited series—and, together, they're a riot.
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Ellie Kurtz A Play That Tests Ethical Questions in Real-Time
The Majority quizzes its audience on hot-button issues to demonstrate how easily the shape of a query can alter its answer.
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NBC / YouTube ‘He Is Not a President’
In the wake of Charlottesville, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon delivered damning critiques of Donald Trump.
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Ravi Deepres / Alicia Clarke The Follow-Up to Rain Room Is Brilliant and Unsettling
Random International and Wayne McGregor’s +/- Human is an installation by way of Black Mirror.
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Netflix Atypical Is So Close to Great
The new Netflix series about a high-school senior with autism is warmhearted, funny, and totally inconsistent.
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Associated Press Storytellers Grapple With the Porn Identity
In new works, Jon Ronson and Tom Perrotta examine the cultural impact of a digital sexual revolution.
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HBO Game of Thrones: Dragons Are the Nuclear Option
The creatures are the most powerful weapon in Westeros, but “The Spoils of War” showed the horrific cost of using them.
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Netflix Icarus: A Doping House of Cards Tumbles Down
In the new Netflix documentary, a filmmaker accidentally captures how one of the biggest scandals in sporting history came to light.
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Rafael Marchante / Reuters Why Men Pretend to Be Women to Sell Thrillers
Over the last decade, female writers have come to dominate crime fiction, a genre traditionally associated with men. But their appeal goes beyond the byline.
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Netflix Did 13 Reasons Why Spark a Suicide Contagion Effect?
A new study reveals that internet searches for suicide skyrocketed in the wake of the show’s release.
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Netflix The Joy of The Incredible Jessica James
James C. Strouse’s movie is a predictable romantic comedy elevated by an incandescent star.
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HBO The HBO Show That Takes Place in a Single Room
In Jay and Mark Duplass’s new anthology series, the setting stays the same. Everything else is completely unpredictable.
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Manish Swarup / AP The 13 Writers Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, and George Saunders are among the authors in contention for the British literary award.
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Other Press The Swedish Novel That Imagines a Dystopia for the Childless
Ninni Holmqvist’s 2009 book “The Unit,” newly reissued, imagines a world in which people who haven’t procreated are forced to make a different—ultimate—contribution to society.
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HBO Game of Thrones: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Stormborn,” the second episode of the seventh season.
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Netflix Ozark Is One Grim Peak-TV Cocktail
The new 10-hour drama follows a Chicago financial adviser forced to move to Missouri to launder money for a cartel.
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Netflix Friends From College Is a Tragedy of Arrested Development
The new Netflix series is a strange, messy dive into what happens when people can’t grow up.
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Netflix To the Bone: The Trouble With Anorexia on Film
The new Netflix movie illustrates how hard it is to responsibly portray a mental-health disorder that has morbidly fascinated culture for centuries.
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TNT Will Is Flagrantly Silly, Glam-Rock Shakespeare
The new TNT show reinvents 16th-century London as a bacchanal of sex, drugs, and steampunk.
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HBO Tour de Pharmacy's Insane, Riotous Ride
The HBO special by Andy Samberg and Murray Miller is a bonkers, star-studded pastiche of cycling’s doping problem.
