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May 21, 2020
Critical Mass
The Provocations of Kent Monkman
The Cree artist has broken into mainstream success. His newest painting shows why that may be a problem.
April 6, 2020
The Soapbox
On Being White and Broke in America
With "Rust Belt Femme," Raechel Anne Jolie joins a coterie of writers using memoir to explore whiteness, class, and American hierarchy.
October 29, 2018
Magazine
The Promise of Polarization
Ideological division was once seen as the solution to America’s political gridlock. What went wrong?
October 26, 2018
Magazine
A Cut Above
The liberating disjointedness of Diane Williams’s very short stories
October 23, 2018
Magazine
A War Without Civilian Deaths?
What arguments for a more humane approach to war conceal
October 17, 2018
Magazine
Hearing Secret Harmonies
How Anthony Powell chronicled the curiously languid world of the English middle class
October 9, 2018
Magazine
The Good Place Comes Down to Earth
The show's third season illuminates the hard work of living a better life.
November 13, 2015
Stephen Colbert points out that network TV's rules about art and nudity are completely ridiculous.
May 9, 2013
Former Fugleman
January 19, 2013
Why Helen Hunt Deserves a Best Actress Oscar for The Sessions
January 18, 2013
Judge Not: How the Celebrity-Industrial Complex Is Eating Its Tail
January 17, 2013
An "Enlightened" Mike White Wants to Change TV
January 15, 2013
The Literary Insecurities of Washington, D.C.
January 14, 2013
FX is Feminism for Men
January 10, 2013
"1600 Penn" and the Tedium of the Goofball White House Comedy
January 9, 2013
Lena Dunham Caved to Her Critics on Race, and It Made "Girls" a Better Show
January 7, 2013
Elizabeth Wurtzel Doesn't Reveal Enough About Herself (No, Really!)
January 5, 2013
Django Unchained Is All Talk With Nothing to Say
January 2, 2013
Tarantino, Chained
December 28, 2012
Add These to Your NetFlix Queue: Films You Should Have Seen This Year

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