Nitsuh Abebe

In an era of institutional rot, cranks can be hard to tell from heroes.

The digital effects were mocked for trying to make an old man young. But this is the rare American film that accepts what being old really means.

Con artistry can charm us as much as it enrages us. And lately, it seems ubiquitous.

What is it about dogs that makes it so tempting to write in their voices?

Investigating the behavior of teenagers has become a much more pressing activity than this TV show anticipated.

There are great sentences on paper and great sentences in songs, but the categories don’t often overlap.

A charmingly old-fashioned bit of prose appears in the least old-fashioned of formats: the tweetstorm.

There’s a strange feeling that comes from spending too much time alone.

Debating for sport used to be tolerated online — but that was before you could argue with everybody, all the time.

From SZA and Charli XCX to Gucci Mane and Jake Paul, 25 writers — John Jeremiah Sullivan, Angela Flournoy, Hanif Abdurraqib and more — tell us what’s happening to pop.