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.
A Radical Message for a Kids’ Movie
Hoppers offers a surprising take on the typical talking-animal story.
A Novel About Women Who Trade One Kind of Captivity for Another
In Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things, a group of captive women discover who they might become beyond the control of men.
The Worst Airport in America
Traveling by plane anywhere is bad right now, but in some places, it’s worse.
How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times
Artificial intelligence seems to be turning up, undisclosed, in the opinion pages of major news publications.
Why Does Watching TV Feel Like Homework? (Just Me?)
Binge-watching has become a way of life, for better or worse.
The WNBA Players Got What They Wanted
A new labor agreement represents a breakthrough in women’s-sports history.
The In Living Color Effect
How a radical sketch-comedy show helped usher in the cultural boom of Black comedy in the 1990s
Trump’s Giant Face Is Everywhere
The festooning of the president’s name and likeness across Washington, D.C., is consistent with authoritarian tendencies.
Chuck Norris Played Too Good a Bad Guy to Stay One
Before he became an avatar of manly hyperbole, he held his own against Bruce Lee.
