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HBO Max is sacrificing its credibility to vertical video
Historians like to claim that the pre-millennium monoculture is dead. Really, it’s just blurred. Smartphones have fooled us into thinking that we curate what our screens show us. But when so much of the media we consume is presented the…
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” made me want to date again
There are two scenes in Jane Schoenbrun‘s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” that I hope will be among the first things to flash through my mind at the hour of my death, somewhere right after “oh sh*t,” and…
Dolly Parton blazed a path that modern country stars can’t follow
Dolly Parton made a lot of things across her 60-plus-year career: massive hit songs, a theme park, a children’s literacy initiative that gave away over 300 million books, movies of both the smash-hit and cult classic variety. But she shied…
Trump’s mystery meat problem – Salon.com
One of the things I have always loved about “Bob’s Burgers” is the bittersweet certainty that the Belchers may get ahead, but never by very much. Sixteen seasons have been built, in part, around the small economies of restaurant life:…
Marco Rubio won’t give up his Pop-Tarts for MAHA
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has enough on his plate managing American foreign policy. Apparently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s sauerkraut won’t be joining it. Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, offered a surprisingly candid glimpse into life inside the Trump administration…
Real men don’t bike: How cars became the symbol of American manhood
This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Meet Jessica and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. “Freedom doesn’t ring, it revs!” That was the tagline of the first-ever IndyCar street race held…
Tim Curry’s devilish charm was irresistible
The seduction of sin was only theoretical to me until I fell for Tim Curry’s performance in “Legend.” That title may be unknown to many, although the British actor’s talent for prompting debauched thoughts in his audience surely is not.…
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” withers in metaphor Hell
There comes a time in every English-speaker’s life when they learn the meaning of the French phrase “la petite mort,” an adage that, translated literally, means “the little death,” and typically refers to the sensation immediately following an orgasm. Given…
I was fired for resisting technology. It saved my career
I was not surprised by recent news that online classes have become swamped by artificial intelligence cheating, eroding academic integrity. From the second I heard about “asynchronous” studies, I thought of the word’s negative connotations: not happening or existing simultaneously,…
Say it, sister: “I had an abortion”
Given the national tension over abortion, and the targeting of clinics and doctors by antiabortion protesters and terrorists, it’s understandable that we don’t hear much from women who have actually had abortions. Even for those who are pro-choice, there can…