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A Season Underground: "Russian Doll" and Mental Illness
Peli Grietzer considers the rallying murmur of Russian Doll's revolutionary representation of mental illness.
All Essays
Betraying Camp
Alex Weintraub evaluates the Met's "Camp: Notes on Fashion," which has an "approach to fashion [that] is, ultimately, a self-defeating one."
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Long Night"
Dear Television's Aaron Bady, Sarah Mesle, and Phil Maciak reluctantly celebrate all the characters who survived "The Long Night," they guess.
The Return of the Return of the Repressed
“Peele wants to make clear just how long a nation can delude itself about what’s real.” Sarah Wasserman and Kinohi Nishikawa review “Us.”
Must We Mean What We Say?: On the Life and Thought of Stanley Cavell
What the late Stanley Cavell’s memoir tells us about his philosophy.
Office Park: A Review of Amazon’s Spheres
"A kind of emptiness makes the green spaces of The Spheres feel more like a branding move on Amazon’s part than a facility to be used by actual workers."
Letter from New York: The Dope on How We Cope, or, The Theater Cure
Laurie Winer reviews several plays currently on Broadway, including "Hadestown," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "My Fair Lady."
Breaking Silence: Talking to Author Dylan Landis and Editor Michele Filgate About “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About”
Taylor Larsen interviews Michele Filgate and Dylan Landis about their new anthology, "What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About."
The History of English and the Pedagogy of Belonging
Seth Lerer reflects on a lifetime of teaching the history of the English language.
How to Fuck Your Neighbor
What Mr. Rogers can teach us about the radical feminism of Andrea Dworkin.
Love App-tually: Grindr and Queer Cinema
Kyle Turner on how queer dating and hookup app Grindr has changed LGBTQ cinema.
AOC’s Anti-Fans
What can Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's anti-fandom tell us about today's politics.
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"
Dear Television's Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle talk about all the listening and learning going on in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms."
To Montreux — and Forever More: On Visiting the Nabokovs’ Last Home
On the 120th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Nabokov, Maxim Shrayer recalls his visit to Montreux, where he spoke to Dmitri Nabokov before his death.
The Fantasy Editor
Tim Groenland on the history and shifting role of the literary editor.
A Reluctant Bricolage of the Sublime and the Popular: Eliyahu Fatal’s “Broken Cisterns”
Ben Ratskoff reviews Iraqi-Jewish artist Eliyahu Fatal’s 2018 exhibition in Los Angeles.
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