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Rebecca Blackwell / AP Nine Inch Nails Enters Its Least Compromising Phase Yet
The rock band’s Bad Witch completes a trilogy of terse, inventive, post-Trump blasts of rage.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Mike Shinoda Asks Not to Be Defined by Loss
The rapper’s new album, Post Traumatic, insists that the music go on, nearly one year after the death of his Linkin Park bandmate Chester Bennington.
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HBO Westworld: Who Cares About the Man in Black?
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Vanishing Point,” the ninth episode of Season 2.
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USA Today Sports / Reuters Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Marriage of Conquest
With Everything Is Love, pop’s biggest couple celebrates itself—and its significance to America.
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Netflix How Queer Is Queer Eye?
In Season 2 of Netflix’s reboot, gay lifestyle advice has less to do with sexuality than with self-definition.
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Rob Grabowski / Invision / AP Kanye West’s Rock-and-Roll Moment
On the highlights of two recent albums—Ye and Kids See Ghosts—the rapper reaches across genres to redefine “freedom” again and again.
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Dennis Van Tine / STAR MAX / AP What Anthony Bourdain Understood About Authenticity
He was one of 21st-century pop culture’s few figures to argue persuasively for an assailed and slippery concept: realness.
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HBO Westworld: Ghost Nation, Revealed
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Kiksuya,” the eighth episode of Season 2.
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Ash Kingston Serpentwithfeet’s Songs of Supernatural Intimacy
The experimental musician’s powerful debut album, Soil, blends gospel and the gothic.
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JoJo Whilden / FX Pose and the Uncapturable Brilliance of the Ballroom
Amid a wave of new tributes to the queer art of voguing, Ryan Murphy’s FX show struggles to capture the subculture’s energy.
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Anthony Bolante / Reuters Donald Trump’s Mysterious Sense of Irony
The president is even further from the definition than Alanis Morissette was.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters What Went Wrong With Spotify’s ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy?
The company’s quickly abandoned stance against misbehavior is a sign that the record industry still doesn’t want to police the ethics of its stars.
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HBO Westworld: Strike the Match
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Les Écorchés,” the seventh episode of Season 2.
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Matt Detrich / USA Today Sports / Reuters Kanye West’s Ye Sparks and Sputters
Amid a few gripping moments, the rapper’s eighth album all-too-briefly glances at politics and mental health.
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Erika Goldring / Bennett Raglin / Getty / ... Pusha T, Drake, and the Limits of Rap Beef
Four Atlantic staffers discuss hip-hop’s vicious and messy brawl of the moment and how the art of the diss track has evolved.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Roseanne Fantasy Is Over
The sitcom star’s racist tweet ended a show that fashioned Trump’s appeal as largely economic and national unity as within reach.
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HBO Westworld: From Cradle to Grave
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Phase Space,” the sixth episode of Season 2.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters Was Classic Rock a Sound, or a Tribe?
Steven Hyden’s book Twilight of the Gods argues that the appeal of the now-dwindling Baby Boomer guitar gods was only ever personal.
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Disney The Soul of Solo Is a Droid
Star Wars’ first woke robot, L3-37, speaks to the film’s revolutionary themes—and to pop culture’s anxiety around artificial intelligence.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Kanye West’s Hypocrisy on Empathy and Celebrity
The rapper insisting that a photo of Whitney Houston’s bathroom be the cover art for Pusha T’s Daytona is a clear betrayal of his rhetoric about compassion.
