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Getty / The Atlantic Refusing to Wear a Mask Is an Empty Act of Defiance
Those who reject facial coverings during the pandemic do so amid broad consensus about what public safety demands.
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Lara Solanki / Netflix The Secret Lives of Teenage Sidekicks
Mindy Kaling’s Never Have I Ever joins a handful of new coming-of-age films that break with history to put young women of color at the center of the story.
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Netflix / Amazon / Hulu / FX / ... 25 Half-Hour Shows to Watch Now
If your attention span is frazzled, explore the compact joys of the 30-minute format.
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New York Times Co. / Hulton Archive / ... 30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
These films, each unforgettable in its own way, are essential viewing.
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Heritage Images / Getty The Books Briefing: Your Socially Distanced Summer-Reading List
Twenty titles for all your warm-weather moods: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Ollie Upton / Hulu What The Great Reveals About Trump’s Pandemic Denial
Hulu’s new satire may be set in 18th-century Russia, but it understands the theatrical and nearsighted politics of the current moment.
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Adeshola Makinde Athletes During the Pandemic Are Learning What Fans Have Always Known
As players return to empty arenas, they are discovering a basic truth: Live sports is an act of social imagination.
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Starz / The Atlantic An Old-School Crime Drama That’s Thoroughly Modern
Hightown deepens the procedural genre by expanding its focus beyond a singular murder to the opioid epidemic at the edges of its story.
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Hasbro / The Atlantic The Board Game That Turns Feminism Into a Joke
I played Ms. Monopoly so that you don’t have to.
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: Forecasting Reality
What’s next: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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The Atlantic How to Write Science Fiction That Isn’t ‘Useful’
Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, discusses his new short story for The Atlantic.
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Joy Yamusangie 20 Books to Read in Quarantine This Summer
Our picks for immersive, escapist, or nostalgic reading—wherever you are
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Getty / The Atlantic A Pandemic Novel That’s Oddly Soothing
Lawrence Wright’s The End of October has been heavily touted for its prescience, but the one thing it didn’t anticipate is heartening.
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Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Baseball’s Strange and Poignant Return to TV
The first live sports games to air in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic provide a hopeful, yet harrowing, look at the future.
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Oliver Munday The Blood Tax
New fiction from Emma Donoghue
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Andrew Chin / Getty / The Atlantic Emma Donoghue Talks About Her New Novel, The Pull of the Stars
“An epidemic is a narrative gold mine: It ups the stakes for the most everyday interaction between characters, because every kiss becomes a gamble.”
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Everett Collection The Sitcom Dad Who Made Grouchiness Into an Art Form
The actor Jerry Stiller, who died yesterday at age 92, was unforgettable as the irascible Frank Costanza on Seinfeld.
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Thomas Rabsch / laif / Redux The Day the Live Concert Returns
I don’t know when it will be safe to sing arm in arm at the top of our lungs. But we will do it again, because we have to.
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Celina Pereira Good Riddance to the Handshake
A terrible custom is gone for good. Hallelujah.
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Saeed Adyani / Netflix Hollywood Fails to Sell Its Own Fairy Tale
Ryan Murphy’s Netflix show presents a fantasy in which marginalized people get to make the film they want. But the fun thought exercise curdles into earnest nonsense.
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