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Paramount Pictures What Is the Meaning of Mother!?
Delving into the plot, allegories, and shocking ending of one of the most surprising Hollywood releases of the year
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Channel 4 / National Geographic The State: A Provocative New Drama Considers ISIS
The four-part miniseries by Wolf Hall’s Peter Kosminsky explores life inside the terrorist group for the Britons who join up.
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Hulu How the Emmy Awards Put Hulu on the Map
The Handmaid’s Tale became the first streaming-TV show to win Best Drama Series—an honor that surprisingly did not go to Netflix.
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Phil McCarten / Invision for the Television Academy ... Veep's Showrunner on Clinton, Trump, and Insulting Jonah
Before David Mandel accepted the HBO show’s third consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, he spoke with The Atlantic about writing political satire for a fractious world.
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Chris Pizzello / AP Sean Spicer and the Self-Contradicting Politics of the Emmys
The cameo by the former press secretary put a confusing spin on the many anti-Trump jokes of the night.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Women Won Big at the 2017 Emmys
This year’s top awards went to Big Little Lies, Veep, and The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Katie Posner How My First Novel Became a Movie
It took 14 years of false starts, navigating Hollywood, and a modest payout for my book Carrie Pilby to be adapted into a Netflix film.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Colin Kaepernick and Blade Runner: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Atlantic's Week in Culture
A roundup of our recent writing on arts and entertainment
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Netflix First They Killed My Father Is a Surprising, Devastating Triumph
Angelina Jolie’s new film follows the Cambodian Civil War and the brutal Khmer Rouge regime through the eyes of a young girl.
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Owen Sweeney / AP The False Prophets of Protest Music
Members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill team up for political rock that seems immediately obsolete.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Will Netflix or HBO Dominate the 2017 Emmy Awards?
What to expect from the 69th ceremony honoring the best of television
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Beawiharta / Reuters Eka Kurniawan's Darkly Comic Tale of Boyhood
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, by the Indonesian author of Beauty Is a Wound, is a surreal, poignant account of a teen attempting to become a man.
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Paramount Mother! Is a Stunning, Ferocious Head Trip
The writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s metaphor-rich horror movie is a work of amazing ambition—and definitely not for everyone.
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters A Novel That Imagines a World Without Bees
Maja Lunde’s climate-fiction debut uses species extinction to ask its human characters: What’s more important, self-interest or sacrifice?
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Nina Subin / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Marjorie Liu on the Road to Making Monstress
The comic-book writer discusses working for Marvel, the loneliness of novel-writing, and why her epic-fantasy series is mostly populated by women and characters of color.
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FX Better Things Is Almost Perfect Television
The FX comedy-drama by Pamela Adlon is one of the sharpest and most poignant shows in recent memory.
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Mary Altaffer / AP 'What More Do You Need?'
In What Happened, Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir, the politician has become cautiously diaristic.
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Kevin Mazur / Hand in Hand / Getty The Apolitical Politics of the Celebrity Hurricane Telethon
Amid raising $44 million, Stevie Wonder and Beyoncé blew past the question of whether it’d be divisive to talk about climate change.
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Cara Howe / Comedy Central Darkness on the Edge of Broad City
The manic-pixie yas kweens squirm under Trump in Season 4.
