The Next Great American Mega-Genre
Men with guitars are back in fashion—and categorizing their sound isn’t easy.
Men with guitars are back in fashion—and categorizing their sound isn’t easy.
Spain won the tournament. The whole women’s game will benefit.
His 2011 film, Bernie, understands the dangers of despising people who are not like you.
A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones create an immediate, instinctual bond between the reader and the characters.
Ishana Night Shyamalan’s debut film, The Watchers, finds a careful balance between the freaky and the mundane.
The mesmerizing new HBO series Fantasmas isn’t exactly funny—but it is entirely relatable.
A new book sees the reactionary response to a New Deal–era arts initiative as a precursor to today’s cultural divisions.
His parables aren’t supposed to make sense.
Moments of great physical upheaval can be accompanied by great revelations.
Don’t expect another Barbenheimer.
This is flat-pack prestige storytelling: easy to assemble and totally uninspiring.
In a Violent Nature might seem like a purely aesthetic exercise. But its experimentation elevates an all-too-familiar genre.
A new book earnestly wrestles with what it means to bring a person into the world.
Headshot upends the classic story of the underdog by turning each of its characters into one.
Judith Jones edited culinary greats such as Julia Child and Edna Lewis—and identified the pleasure at the core of traditional “women’s work.”
A little green puppet from an old children’s TV show is healing hearts for a new generation of viewers.
The actor proves he’s so much more than a strapping hunk in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man.
The Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa director is taking on the apocalypse—again.
Two new literary works from Colombe Schneck and R. O. Kwon feature fascinating, flawed women.
The Mad Max prequel is an emotional odyssey.
In his new novel, Colm Tóibín explores the twinned relationship between Ireland and America.