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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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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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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Alan Varajas / EyeEm / Getty / The ... The Advice That Most 2020 Commencement Speakers Won’t Give
Here’s the speech that graduates need to hear.
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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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Atlantic Records Charli XCX Captures the Weird Intimacy of Quarantine
The pop star’s daring album How I’m Feeling Now tries to make online hedonism match the real thing.
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Klara Auerbach / The Atlantic The Big Story: The Day the Live Concert Returns
Dave Grohl and Jeffrey Goldberg discuss the unique magic of live music, live at 4 p.m. ET today.
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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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Paul Spella / The Atlantic Tree Beyond Your Window
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Sacrée Frangine Why Birds Do What They Do
The more humans understand about their behavior, the more inaccessible their world seems.
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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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The Atlantic Cooking Your Way Through the Pandemic
An hour-by-hour account—with recipes
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The Paranoid Style in American Entertainment
How the mechanisms of reality TV taught us to trust no one
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The Atlantic The 1798 Poem That Was Made for 2020
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is taking on new meaning during the coronavirus pandemic.
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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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Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and the ... A Biblical Mystery at Oxford
A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
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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.
