How fan fiction went mainstream, from Heated Rivalry to Fifty Shades of Gray
Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is one of the most popular websites in the world, with over 10 million ...
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Why Easter never became a big secular holiday like Christmas
Editor’s note, April 6, 2026, 6 am ET: This story was originally published on March 29, 2018, and we’re revisiting ...
Why some American accents have endured — while others have faded away
On Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in podcast, we hear a lot of stories from listeners. Recently, we asked ...
Why people are having such strong reactions to Lindy West’s new memoir
You might remember feminist writer Lindy West from her days on X (né Twitter) yelling at sexist, anti-fat trolls. Or ...
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 ...
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 ...
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