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While the show falls short of greatness, its existence as a counter-narrative to whitewashed histories feels crucial at a time when Americans are so fiercely divided over how we teach and learn about race in our country

The divide between people who claim to love New Year’s Eve and those who loathe it is perhaps not as wide as you’d think. Even if you strive to view the midnight countdown as a time of fresh beginnings, it’s human to be at least slightly haunted by the specter of everything you failed to…

Just three years after changing its name from Musical.ly, TikTok has become one of the most important tools for musicians to find and grow their audience. Many of this year’s biggest hits—”Drivers License,” “Up,” “Essence,” “Heat Waves,” “Stay”—owe a decent chunk of their success to their virality on the app, while many artists’ origin stories…

As we prepare to close the book on 2021, Disney+ is opening up another one, and this tome comes from a library far, far away. The Book of Boba Fett, a new series that’s a spin-off of the acclaimed Star Wars show The Mandalorian, will premiere on December 29. Despite having little to do in…

One of the best parts of writing about culture and entertainment for a living is the sheer amount of culture and entertainment we get to consume each year. But not everything gets in-depth coverages on our website and in the pages of our magazine, and there’s so much more we want to share with our…

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The decision to open The Tragedy of Macbeth in theaters on Christmas Day—like releasing a murder of anxious, captive crows into the sky—has to be one of the most perverse marketing strategies of recent years. It’s also brilliant and perfect, if not from a moneymaking perspective, then definitely from an artistic one. Audiences will be…

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the Amazon Prime Video series, The Wheel of Time As this mostly crappy year comes to an increasingly crappy close, one of the rare high points in these Omicron times was getting to watch the finale to the first season of The Wheel of Time. As a longtime fan of the…

Cool is the word used most often to describe her: the Coca-Colas and the cigarettes each morning, the leotard and the typewriter, the scotch and the shawl. California. Writing for the movies to make a living, making notes for the director, the short tight dispatches from the South and West. But the word cool means…

In the wake of the celebrated writer's death, we look to her own words on loss and grief

The MCU is heading toward a future with much blurrier lines between heroes and villains

This story contains spoilers for season 2 of Emily in Paris. When Emily in Paris viewers last encountered the titular heroine, she was juggling a demanding boss, the challenges of navigating a new city and some very over-the-top fashion choices. The first season ended with the cheery American (played by Lily Collins) getting entangled, somewhat…