wmagazine.com
In ‘The Underground Railroad,’ the South African star gave one of the TV’s most
powerful performances—and made history. Now, with Viola Davis, Mbedu heads back
home.
over 2 years ago
newyorker.com
Netflix’s new relative of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” in which two organizing
influencers transform Khloé Kardashian’s garage and regular families’ clutter,
feels like just another marketing channel.
over 3 years ago
newyorker.com
The book features an extraordinary passage that shows how to regard the holiday
as a holy day.
almost 4 years ago
newyorker.com
This dispersal of community is a necessary thing, with an eeriness that is
actual and conceptual and metaphorical: a symptom of a new approach to public
space.
about 4 years ago
newyorker.com
Neither the moral deliberations of the new Amazon series nor its technical
facility are adequate to its ambitions.
about 4 years ago
newyorker.com
The premise of the Netflix show is promoted as a utopian innovation. “Your
relationship will begin by forming an intimate bond with nothing to distract
you,” a co-host, Nick Lachey, says.
about 4 years ago
newyorker.com
“High Fidelity” has always concerned itself with nostalgia for youthful
heartbreak, but, this time around, the mists of memory haze obscure the hero.
over 4 years ago
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The running-through-Chinatown scene in “Frances Ha,” Vogue’s interview-less
Beyoncé cover story, Cindy Sherman’s Instagram account, and more.
over 4 years ago
art-critique.com
There are few items of clothing as socially, politically and racially charged as
the hoodie. It has come to represent a modern day parable of social inequality,
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
Programs on WE tv, AMC, Netflix, and Hulu offer celebrity chat, in-depth
analysis of landmark songs, a reality competition, and a dramatized look at the
making of one of the genre’s titans.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
Regina King gives a performance so subtle and muscular as to exhaust all
superlatives.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
The final episode of Season 2 deconstructs the characters’ ways of speaking
power into existence. When they try to talk normally, they find that they have
reached their limit.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
The movie knows a thing that is, apparently, rather difficult to say: that the
system of higher learning in the United States is a scam at its essence.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
“Audience of One,” by James Poniewozik, identifies Donald Trump as a postmodern
feeler, who intuits and responds to the stimuli of electronic media with the
dark brilliance of an idiot savant.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
A new track by a London teen-ager joins a catalogue of tribute songs that honor
and interrogate rock-and-roll heroes.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
These Emmys were uneven and unsettled, and thus unusually interesting by the
standards of this telecast. It was the text of a medium in flux.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
The Upper East Side institution wasn’t just a shop; it was performance art. It
presented a new parsing of common objects, with Wunderkammer charm.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
I am optimistic about the futures of some of the very youngest designers
precisely because they are palpably pessimistic about the future at large.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
The fact that orange wine is challenging—that its appeal is more cerebral and
gastronomic than carnal and epicurean—is central to its identity.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
The show is a wholesome domestic soap about the perils and rewards of mixing
business and pleasure, in which high style merges with basic cheese.
over 4 years ago
newyorker.com
The series presents the view that Fox News programming is essentially a
propagandistic edit of Ailes’s own conservatism—nakedly self-interested, tacitly
white supremacist, and theatrically aggrieved.
almost 5 years ago