
We’ve Lost the Plot
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
If the practice stopped, top-level women’s sport as we know it might cease to exist.
It’s easy to condemn the congressman’s fabrications. Maybe too easy.
Smokey Robinson has every right to unleash an album called Gasms.
Paramore’s old sound has become trendy again—but the Nashville trio is chasing “new versions of ourselves.”
The film is intimate and emotional without losing any of the franchise’s signature heat.
Even the highlights of last night’s ceremony couldn’t fully distract from its problems.
The show proved that the right live performances can find comedy even in a dry steak.
These titles expand our understanding of creative work—and affirm that it is fundamental to how we process the world.
Dorothy Sayers’s most famous character is a detective who solves crimes with elegance—but he finds the deeper enigmas of human beings always out of reach.
Here are the most noteworthy movies to come out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The model and actor drove men wild. She’s still enduring the consequences.
Other groups made a bigger splash, but Blondie was a true genre chameleon.
M. Night Shyamalan understands how to make a ludicrous horror concept work: Add in a healthy dose of tenderness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald never explicitly states Jay Gatsby’s race.
Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.
His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
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“If you are retraumatizing the very audience a piece of media is supposedly for, can it really be for them?”
Even before her comeback, the actor excelled at humanizing characters who were written as mere laughingstocks.
The sketch show’s pretaped segments are outshining its live comedy.