Celebrity Life
Where Cheer Season 2 Finds All Your Favorite Navarro Cheerleaders—Plus a Whole New Crew of Rivals
The viewing experience of the first season of the Netflix show Cheer was built on an exciting sense of momentum. The docuseries, which follows an elite cheerleading team at Navarro College in Corsicana, TX, spent the entire season building toward the climactic finale at a national championship. Season 2 of Cheer also builds toward something,…
Dana Schwartz Wrote the YA Romance She Always Wanted to Read
You might recognize Dana Schwartz’s name, it’s just a matter of where you’ve seen it. Some know her as the creator and host of the Noble Blood podcast, where she tells the stories of royals past; others through the parody Twitter account @GuyinyourMFA, which she started when she was a college student in 2013. There’s…
Lindsey Vonn: The World Deemed Me ‘Dramatic’ for My Injuries. A Man Would’ve Been Called Resilient
Toward the end of the 2015–2016 ski season, I was on a competitive high. I had come back from multiple crashes in 2013 and 2014 that left me with a swath of injuries, particularly to my knees, and I was winning race after race. Everything was going so well that with a few weeks still…
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Urges Us Not to Forget the Past
When Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature last October, becoming the first Black writer to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993, his books shot to the top of must-read lists. But in the U.S., as well as other parts of the world, the now 73-year-old author’s backlist (10…
The More Bonkers Search Party Got, the More Authentically It Captured Millennial Adulthood
Alia Shawkat's millennial mystery-comedy got weirder with each passing season. That's what made it feel so authentic
The 40 Most Anticipated Video Games of 2022
From Horizon Forbidden West to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2
Why All Actors—and the World—Owe a Debt to Sidney Poitier
Poitier helped reshape that world to such a degree that we’ll never be able to reckon fully with his impact
The 10 Most Anticipated Cookbooks of 2022
Baking bread may have been an early pandemic trend, but two years later, interest in cooking at home has not waned. As restaurants have struggled to remain open throughout the unpredictable peaks of COVID-19 variants and families working from home have bonded over a newfound opportunity to make their own meals, the publishing industry has…
A Hero Is a Beautiful Drama That Demands a Great Deal of Patience
Oscar-winning Iranian filmmaker Ashgar Farhadi's new film tells the story of a naïve man who makes some bad choices
Spy Thriller The 355 Has the Right Ingredients, But They Never Come Together
The new movie starring Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Diane Kruger and Penelope Cruz needs more wit, glamour and lightness
Peter Bogdanovich, Director of The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, Dies at 82
Considered part of a generation of young “New Hollywood” directors, Bogdanovich was heralded as an auteur from the start
Delia Ephron on Finding Love Again in her 70s
Delia Ephron is aware that her story sounds like it’s straight out of a movie. First, over the span of just a few years, the novelist and screenwriter suffered a crushing amount of loss. Her sister and collaborator, the acclaimed filmmaker and writer Nora Ephron, died of cancer in 2012. Three years later, she also…