The medium’s episodic structure makes it an apt medium to explore that most long-running and unpredictable of emotions.
The second episode of the new season is a twisty, tense horror story about an immersive video game that can detect your darkest fears.
Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, the episode is set in a world where everyone is ranked out of five.
The song isn’t about the city itself, but rather a train called City of New Orleans, which travels overnight between…
On Wednesday, Trump employed the adjective to insult his opponent. What he didn’t realize was that the word has long been a rallying cry.
The sequel to one of Hollywood’s most underrated action entries of the decade wastes a solid performance from Tom Cruise.
The PBS documentary is less a behind-the-scenes glimpse than a social primer on why Broadway’s biggest smash matters.
Nate Parker's film uses cinematic tropes that may obscure the true complexity of Nat Turner’s legend.
A regular Notes contributor, Diane, adds to the most popular city in our series thus far: …
You Want It Darker gravely and beautifully accepts God and mortality.
Jacqueline, a reader in Michigan, brings up “one thing missing from your discussion”: All my life I…
The famed Japanese animator and director created heroines who defied feminine stereotypes and showed me how to be at home in my own skin.
Dylan is the latest reader to add to our placed-based series: My closely guarded secret…
An interview with Bill O’Reilly Monday night distilled many of the struggles the Late Show host has had in his first year on the job.
Guitar rock, rap, and electronic music will compete for induction again.
Franz Kafka’s work taught the writer Jonathan Lethem about how to incorporate chaos into narratives.
All you Chicagoans out there can probably relate to reader Max: So, I’m a transplant…
SNL and pop culture pay loving disrespect to Donald Trump’s wife.
Mid-way through October—and aaaaalmost approaching the finish line of this long-running election season—it seems appropriate to consider, for the next…
The new Epix comedy imagines a former Republican president deciding to atone for his sins in office.
Some 200 people walked out of the comedian’s Tampa arena show after she made jokes about Donald Trump. It’s unclear why, exactly, they were surprised by her partisanship.