Nitsuh Abebe

What happens when actors are asked to speak more precisely than actual human beings ever do.

How French intellectuals, cigarette smoke and questions of the self gave way to an obsession with apocalypse.

We are constantly reminded that the Trump presidency is an aberration. But perhaps it‘s merely revealing the natural order of things.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In the second season of “How To With John Wilson,” the documentary filmmaker shows off his penchant for mutating the mundane into the vivid and extraordinary.