Why It Was Such a High Wire Act for Late-Night Comedians to Cover Trump’s Win

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How Moana Uses Polynesian Myths to Create a Prototypical Disney Story

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Four Poems for the Election

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Prince Hal, Hamilton, and the Art of the Political Compromise

Isaac Butler

Nov 07, 2016 10:56 AM

How I Fell in Love With Horror Movies, and What Their Terrors Taught Me

Donald Fagen

Oct 28, 2016 9:47 AM

The Many Small Successes—and One Large Failure—of the Smithsonian’s African American Museum

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Is Your McMansion Haunted? Probably.

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Photos From the Early Days of the Beatlemania

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Sept 28, 2016 4:38 PM

Somehow, Three Seasons in, Transparent Keeps Finding Ways to Get Better

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Sept 22, 2016 9:45 AM

Why American Girl’s First Black Doll Had to Be Born a Slave

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Sept 21, 2016 8:30 PM

By the Sea Proves Why It’s Always a Bad Idea for Celebrity Couples to Co-Star in a Movie

Jeffrey Bloomer

Sept 21, 2016 1:03 PM

How Jackie and Barry Both Shore Up and Subvert the Important Person Biopic Template

Sam Adams

Sept 21, 2016 9:15 AM

How Pyrotechnic Comic Novelist Colson Whitehead Found His Way to the Grim, Measured Underground Railroad

Christian Lorentzen

Sept 21, 2016 8:02 AM

Nate Parker Wants Us to Confront the Darkness of the Past. He Should, Too.

Tamara J. Walker

Sept 21, 2016 5:30 AM

Brangelexit Is the Tabloid Industry’s Greatest Triumph

Ruth Graham

Sept 20, 2016 5:14 PM

Louis C.K. Wears a Suit, Kills at Madison Square Garden

Jesse David Fox

Sept 20, 2016 12:38 PM

Watching Lin-Manuel Miranda Watch the Hamilton Parody, Spamilton

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Sept 19, 2016 8:34 AM

How Mommie Dearest Turned From Prestige Project to Campy Joke

Karina Longworth

Sept 16, 2016 4:31 PM

Sully Is the Perfect Trumpian Fantasy for Our Post-Fact Era

Forrest Wickman

Sept 16, 2016 12:43 PM

Will Best Actress Be a Battle Between Natalie Portman and Emma Stone?

Kyle Buchanan

Sept 16, 2016 12:11 PM