The Rise of CliffsNotes Cinema
Oversimplified literary remakes miss the point of the works they are adapting.
Culture
Why Justin Bieber Played YouTube Onstage for Thousands of People
The pop star transformed the normal act of browsing your laptop into something interesting—and unsettling.
The New Age of Performance Anxiety
With the rise of screen culture, all the world has stage fright.
Where Did ‘Let Them’ Come From?
Years before Mel Robbins published her best-selling self-help book, a struggling writer posted a poem with a similar message.
This Pride Month, the Backlash Has Officially Arrived
Young LGBTQ people are facing the prospect of losing rights they thought they’d never have to worry about.
The Perils of ‘Design Thinking’
How did the concept become the solution to society’s most deeply entrenched problems?
A Stunning Reinvention of the Zombie Film
28 Days Later messed with the genre’s formula. 28 Years Later takes it even further.
How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing
At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
The Amazonification of Everything, Now as a Video Game
In Death Stranding 2, players control a courier who trips over rocks, experiences sunburn, and faces his own possible obsolescence.
Passions of the Void
A poem
A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space
In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.
Modern Dating, With a Lot of Talking, Talking, Talking
Materialists has much less to say about romance than it thinks it does.
The New Old Sound of Adult Anxiety
Haim has made a clever breakup album for a generation that’s wary of tying the knot.
Isn’t Trump Supposed to Be Anti-War?
Getting the U.S. involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran would cut against one of his most consistent campaign promises.