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March 31, 2021
The Places John Lurie Can Take You
A cult musician, actor, and director returns with a television show that’s nominally about painting but is in reality a creative and spiritual journey.
Vikram Murthi
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March 9, 2021
The Four Horsemen of the Media Apocalypse
The legacies of Trump, Limbaugh, Murdoch, and Ailes are a lasting plague of misinformation, propaganda, and fake news.
Robert Lipsyte
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February 18, 2021
What Popular Culture Misunderstands About Addiction
Much of the film and TV we consume misleads audiences with inaccurate and harmful depictions of recovery and treatment.
Zachary Siegel
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January 27, 2021
Luca Guadagnino’s Meditation on Youth
His HBO series We Are Who We Are looks at teenagehood less as a time in one’s life than as a mindset one inhabits.
Erin Schwartz
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January 13, 2021
A ‘Daily Show’ Cocreator on Karens, Crickets, and Comedy After Trump
Lizz Winstead says, “If you can still laugh, you haven’t lost your capacity for hope.”
Rima Parikh
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October 26, 2020
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October 22, 2020
The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity
Why former telethon participants are protesting the return of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s most famous fundraising effort.
Sara Luterman
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July 28, 2020
The Tangle of Desire and Class in ‘Normal People’
The television adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel depicts how people can fall in love in a world structured by power.
Erin Schwartz
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July 15, 2020
John Early Is the Left’s Funniest Comedian
We talked to Early about his socialist heroes, the latest season of HBO’s Search Party, and how comedy is facing the politics of the moment.
Rima Parikh
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July 14, 2020
On the Record’s Act of Witness
Telling the stories of three women who accused Russell Simmons of sexual assault, the documentary is a powerful case study in how institutions have failed Black women.
Stephen Kearse