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A Bloodier, More Mediocre The Crow
After years of gritty comic-book movies, a reboot of the gothic ’90s antihero lands with a thud.
After years of gritty comic-book movies, a reboot of the gothic ’90s antihero lands with a thud.
Spain won the tournament. The whole women’s game will benefit.
Between the Temples tackles the anxieties around cultural assimilation—and finds continuity among very different generations.
A new book on the Scopes case traces a long-simmering culture war—and the fear that often drives both sides.
For all your existential worries
Sabrina Carpenter tackles the exasperation of being young, female, straight, and single in 2024.
In her new book, Eliza Griswold examines the forces that led to one congregation’s collapse.
Wronged explores how the practice of claiming harm has become the rhetorical province of the powerful.
A short story
Blink Twice, Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, is a stylish thriller about being intoxicated by wealth.
At the convention, Democrats are working to reclaim the flip side of weird.
Netflix’s silliest show is the epitome of guilty-pleasure viewing. It should probably stay that way.
The late actor mined the many contradictions of romantic love in her work, and never more brilliantly than in A Woman Under the Influence.
How to decide to put down a book—without all the angst
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation captured anxieties about the emerging surveillance state—and how it makes workers past and present feel at their job.
A provocative 1970s novel reads like a contemporary cry for freedom from the expectations of others.
Mary Gaitskill’s 2019 novella, This Is Pleasure, makes readers consider whether including male voices can help us understand women’s stories.
Alien: Romulus hits some recognizable beats, but the pleasures of its central concept remain undiminished.
Anna Marie Tendler’s mordant account of her life suggests a single source for her pain.
The unearthing of dinosaur bones transformed Victorian society—and long-held notions about our place in the world.
Dìdi is a crowd-pleasing portrait of adolescent angst set in the heyday of Myspace and AIM.
The hero of Danzy Senna’s new novel is trying, and failing, to write the Great American Biracial Novel.