Celebrity Life
How Only Murders in the Building Grapples With the Thorny Ethics of True-Crime Podcasting
The Hulu series is savvy in its depiction of true crime podcast hysteria, ethical quandaries and all
Alan Cumming Is Done With All the Queer Tropes
Alan Cumming is mid-sentence when he turns his camera and rolls up his sleeve. This is a Zoom interview of course, and he’s at his home in the Catskills, where he and his husband have spent a large chunk of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the screen, the actor is showing off a tattoo on his…
You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia
'You' is what you might get if 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' “social assassin” Larry David were a literal assassin, violently vanquishing braggarts and navel gazers and empty-headed trend chasers of every variety
Bergman Island Is the Rare Movie About Writers Trying To Write That Really Works
The always perceptive Mia Hansen-Løve finds a way to make this drama starring Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth more stimulating than it might first appear
The True Story Behind The Last Duel—and History’s Attempt to Erase It
The new historical drama starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon and Adam Driver tells the story of Marguerite de Carrouges. What happened after the events of the film is just as fascinating
Breaking Down Adele’s First New Music in 6 Years
Here's what to know about 'Easy on Me,' and what it tells us about her forthcoming album, '30'
Halloween Kills Sags Under the Weight of Its Own Mythology
There’s nothing creepily suggestive about Halloween Kills. Everything it amounts to is right there on its shallow, pitted surface
David Chang and Priya Krishna Want You to Get Over Recipes
When chef, Momofuku restaurateur and irreverent media personality David Chang approached food journalist Priya Krishna with the idea to create a cookbook with a major twist—the book would have no recipes—she was deeply skeptical. It was 2019, the same year Krishna published her bestselling cookbook Indian-ish, which includes precise recipes for dishes like roti pizza…
Elizabeth Strout Knows We Can’t Escape the Past
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout often finds inspiration in the worlds she has already built and explored. In 2019, she brought readers back to Crosby, Maine with a set of interlinked stories centered around prickly retired schoolteacher Olive Kitteridge. Her latest novel, Oh William!, is a similar venture, this time focusing on Lucy Barton, the…
Suddenly, Everyone We See on TV Is Very Rich or Very Poor. What Happened?
There’s something ominous about the prospect of the vast majority of the population—everyone who lives above the poverty line but will never own an aircraft—disappearing from our screens. Where have TV’s middle classes gone?
Breaking Down the Controversy Around Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special The Closer
In the wake of criticism that Chappelle's latest special is offensive and anti-trans, Netflix is standing by the comedian in the name of 'creative freedom'
The Only Succession Recap You Need Before Season 3 Starts
Season 3 picks up with the fallout from a Kendall Roy bombshell. Here’s where the major characters stand going into a new season of corporate warfare.