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August 24, 2016
Paul La Farge
Welcome to Planet Havana
Cuban science-fiction redefines the future in the ruins of a socialist utopia.
August 23, 2016
Tim Grierson, Will Leitch
Grierson and Leitch Episode 31: War Dogs, Lo and Behold, and Breaking Away
August 23, 2016
Ali Gharib
The Fog of Unknowing
How perpetual ignorance shapes the never-ending war on terror.
August 23, 2016
Clio Chang
Stranger Women
How "Stranger Things" channels the female frustration of being disbelieved.
August 22, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Hugo Awards are kind of like the presidential election.
August 22, 2016
Will Leitch
Lo and Behold: Navigating the World Wide Werner
Werner Herzog's new documentary on the internet signals that it may be time for the director to get out of the way of his own films.
August 21, 2016
Sukjong Hong
The Heinous Olympification of Seoul
The 1988 Summer Games set the template for the “neurotic” model of economic development that has plagued Rio and other Olympic cities.
August 19, 2016
Tim Grierson
War Dogs: An Iraq War Satire Without the Bite
Based on a true story, this comedy from the director of ‘The Hangover’ isn’t daring enough to be truly outrageous.
August 18, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
RIP, Gawker.
August 18, 2016
Alexandra Molotkow
The Journalist and the Voyeur
Can Gay Talese make good art from bad deeds?
August 17, 2016
Will Leitch, Tim Grierson
Grierson & Leitch Episode 30: Ain’t No Party Like a Sausage Party
August 17, 2016
Sven Birkerts
Werner Herzog Dreams of Electric Sheep
In his new documentary, the director turns his attention to the wonders of the internet.
August 17, 2016
Clio Chang
How the Olympics Lost Millennials
The International Olympic Committee and its American media partners have failed miserably to bring the Games to where young people live.
August 15, 2016
Colin Campbell
The Evil Magician Casts a Spell
Donald Trump's eerie likeness to Thomas Mann's Mussolini parable.
August 12, 2016
Tim Grierson
Florence Foster Jenkins: Sing, And the World Will Embrace You
This good-hearted tale of a terrible singer sidesteps deeper issues of our fascination with bad art.
August 12, 2016
Will Leitch
Sausage Party: There’s Nothing Like a Good Weiner Joke
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg team up to produce a Pixar satire in which the foods talk—and much more.
August 12, 2016
Rafia Zakaria
Pakistan’s Boxing Triumph
Eight writers on the meaning of Olympic sports. Part 7: Boxing.
August 11, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Daily Beast stumbles into homophobia.
August 11, 2016
Matthew Pratt Guterl
The Racial Politics of Track and Field
Eight writers on the meaning of Olympic sports. Part 6: Track and Field.
August 11, 2016
Malcolm Harris
Was Patty Hearst a Feminist?
Jeffrey Toobin's new biography refuses to take her radical beliefs seriously.

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