Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a million times edgier than Emerald Fennell’s
You come into a movie based on Wuthering Heights with certain expectations.Emerald Fennell has been clear that she considers her ...
Tag: Books
Football won’t be forever
Football occupies a strange place in American life. It’s the most popular sport in the country by an absurd margin, ...
The real reason people are so passionate about Heated Rivalry
Heated Rivalry, the Canadian series streaming on HBO Max based on the bestselling romance novels by Rachel Reid, has taken ...
Telling the hard parts: 4 music books that push past the highlight reel
If you’ve got a holiday season gift card burning a hole in your pocket and would like some new (or ...
How to understand this hidden driver of the modern world
We have a choice. We could leave our goals and values fuzzy. We can value things like wisdom, communication, friendship, ...
The debate over Hamnet, explained
Chloé Zhao’s lyrical, elegiac new film Hamnet, based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, has been an Oscars frontrunner since ...
The right is obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.
Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the ...
Why every website you used to love is getting worse
TikTok and airlines have something in common with your search engine, your grocery app, and (increasingly) your car: They start ...
The tax avoidance playbook
Beginning in the early 20th century, a new ethos for taxes took hold: Taxes should be imposed on the basis ...
How the new His Dark Materials spinoff series explains the book-banning wars
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy was one of the most beloved children’s book series of the 2000s — and ...
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