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August 29, 2016
Clio Chang
Questions we all (I) had after watching the VMAs.
August 29, 2016
Sophie Pinkham
Witness Tampering
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories.
August 26, 2016
Clio Chang
The Case for Carly Rae Jepsen
Can ‘E•MO•TION: Side B’ finally show the genius of an overlooked artist?
August 26, 2016
Frank Guan
Hip-Hop Hymnals
Why are rappers like Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, and Kendrick Lamar finding religion?
August 25, 2016
Moira Donegan
Wife Rage
Jill Soloway's 'I Love Dick' puts female humiliation and fury at the center of a feminist classic.
August 25, 2016
Jeet Heer
The University of Chicago is attacking academic freedom.
August 25, 2016
Will Leitch, Tim Grierson
What We Learned Watching Summer Movies
Grierson & Leitch dismantle 2016's terrible summer of sequels, blockbusters, and would-be tentpoles.
August 24, 2016
Paul La Farge
Welcome to Planet Havana
Cuban science-fiction redefines the future in the ruins of a socialist utopia.
August 23, 2016
Tim Grierson, Will Leitch
Grierson and Leitch Episode 31: War Dogs, Lo and Behold, and Breaking Away
August 23, 2016
Ali Gharib
The Fog of Unknowing
How perpetual ignorance shapes the never-ending war on terror.
August 23, 2016
Clio Chang
Stranger Women
How "Stranger Things" channels the female frustration of being disbelieved.
August 22, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Hugo Awards are kind of like the presidential election.
August 22, 2016
Will Leitch
Lo and Behold: Navigating the World Wide Werner
Werner Herzog's new documentary on the internet signals that it may be time for the director to get out of the way of his own films.
August 21, 2016
Sukjong Hong
The Heinous Olympification of Seoul
The 1988 Summer Games set the template for the “neurotic” model of economic development that has plagued Rio and other Olympic cities.
August 19, 2016
Tim Grierson
War Dogs: An Iraq War Satire Without the Bite
Based on a true story, this comedy from the director of ‘The Hangover’ isn’t daring enough to be truly outrageous.
August 18, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
RIP, Gawker.
August 18, 2016
Alexandra Molotkow
The Journalist and the Voyeur
Can Gay Talese make good art from bad deeds?
August 17, 2016
Will Leitch, Tim Grierson
Grierson & Leitch Episode 30: Ain’t No Party Like a Sausage Party
August 17, 2016
Sven Birkerts
Werner Herzog Dreams of Electric Sheep
In his new documentary, the director turns his attention to the wonders of the internet.
August 17, 2016
Clio Chang
How the Olympics Lost Millennials
The International Olympic Committee and its American media partners have failed miserably to bring the Games to where young people live.

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