Culture
Ms. Jackson If You’re Scary: “Shirley” Is a Biopic in the Form of a Domestic Ghost Story
The film explores what happens when Shirley Jackson meets a younger reflection of herself.
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Lose Yourself: The Complex, Comforting Allure of Not Being Seen
What does it mean to be able to reject the gaze before it even happens?
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“Little Fires Everywhere" Illuminates Racial Tension in Female Friendships
The series attempts to illuminate often unseen societal inequities.
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Power Lies: Sarah Kendzior on the America That Made Donald Trump Possible
“Anyone could have found the things I found, and could have put them together.”
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Immigration as Inspiration: Who Gets to Be an All-American Girl?
It’s very hard for people who are not immigrants to really understand what it’s like to move to a place where you don’t speak the language and how hard it is to find a home.
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Manipulation By “Transparency”: The Rise and Fall of Everlane
“Ethical fashion” has long been a phrase used to lure customers.
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Mixtape to My Heart: Music as a Function of Vietnamese Memory
Music needs minds and media to carry it, but it doesn’t need bags. Music can’t sink boats.
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“Promising Young Woman” Aims to Redeem the Rape-Revenge Tale. Does It?
In recent decades, audiences have become desensitized to rape stories.
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Samantha Irby on “Wow, No Thank You” and Desanitizing Women’s Lives and Bodies
Samantha Irby will make you cringe as hard as you laugh.
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Of Course We’re Attracted to Chaotic TV Shows Right Now
Though this seems to be a counterintuitive phenomenon, it appears we’re all turning to anxiety-inducing TV in these exceptionally anxiety-inducing times.
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