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July 28, 2021
Chris Lehmann
Better Rules Won’t Fix Democracy
Populism is the villain of Jan-Werner Müller’s new book. But a revitalized democracy needs to engage the people.
July 26, 2021
Alex Shephard
Do We Still Need
Ted Lasso
’s Relentless American Positivity?
The Apple TV series’ debut season provided simple comfort during dark times in 2020. But the honeymoon is over for the second season.
July 26, 2021
John Semley
Michael Pollan’s All-Natural Highs
Both coffee and opium come from plants. Why embrace one and not the other?
July 23, 2021
Jo Livingstone
The Wicked Wit of Shirley Jackson
In her rivetingly funny letters, the author of “The Lottery” transformed the stuff of daily life into magic.
July 21, 2021
Colin Dickey
Edgar Allan Poe, Crank Scientist
The great discoveries of the age captivated his imagination. He almost always misunderstood them.
July 20, 2021
Alex Shephard
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Is a Peek Into the Bleak, Cynical Future of Film
The new LeBron James–Looney Tunes crossover movie isn’t just bad. It’s a harbinger of worse to come.
July 19, 2021
Jennifer Wilson
Katie Kitamura’s
Intimacies
Poses a Moral Dilemma
Narrated by an interpreter for a war criminal at the Hague, Kitamura’s new novel weighs connection and disconnection.
July 15, 2021
David Klion
Roadrunner
Goes in Search of Anthony Bourdain
Morgan Neville’s new documentary offers glimpses of a Bourdain we’ve never seen before—and captures the toll his work took on him.
July 13, 2021
Scott Bradfield
The Failures That Made Ian Fleming
The creator of James Bond had an unremarkable career in intelligence and considered his own books “piffle.”
July 6, 2021
Ankush Khardori
How Bad Was Bill Barr?
Legal pundits have failed to pinpoint the greatest problems with the former attorney general.
July 2, 2021
Chris Lehmann
America’s Obsession With Self-Help
From “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” to “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” what do bestselling guides to self-improvement reveal about the United States?
July 1, 2021
Jo Livingstone
The Crucial, Little Understood Science of the Seafloor
Helen Scales’s fascinating book about life in the deepest parts of the ocean carries a powerful warning.
June 30, 2021
Magazine
Kyle Chayka
The Rise of the Very Online Novel
It’s easy to hate the internet. Patricia Lockwood is the rare writer who delights in its chaos.
June 29, 2021
Magazine
Lidija Haas
Can
Zola
Capture the Delights of A’Ziah King’s Twitter Saga?
Hollywood rarely lets women have fun—and get away with it.
June 28, 2021
Jasper Craven
The People vs. Agent Orange
Exposes a Mass Poisoning in Plain Sight
A new PBS documentary investigates the legacy of one of the most dangerous pollutants on the planet, an unsettling cover-up, and the exhausting fight for accountability.
June 28, 2021
Jennifer Wilson
How to Spot a Cult
According to Amanda Montell’s new book, “Cultish,” the jargon and technical language of fanaticism is surprisingly common.
June 25, 2021
Magazine
Alex Pareene
Video Games Are a Labor Disaster
Why do game studios keep imploding?
June 25, 2021
Jessica M. Goldstein
We All Tried to Control Britney
The pop star is attempting to end her oppressive conservatorship, but it’s not just her father and a judge who robbed her of agency.
June 24, 2021
Noah Kulwin
An Origin Story for the Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen’s inventive new novel imagines Benjamin Netanyahu’s childhood, and digs deep into his father Benzion’s vision of Jewish history.
June 23, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Will We Ever Know What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows?
A Peacock docuseries raises important questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate, but the answers remain a maddening mystery.
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