Culture
Atlanta's Brilliant Reckoning With Money
The FX series’ season finale underlined the depths of Earn’s desperation—and gave some hope that his efforts might pay off.
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Lionsgate / Summit Entertainment In Hacksaw Ridge, Faith Is a Bloody Business
The director Mel Gibson employs characteristic passion and violence to tell the story of a conscientious objector.
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Abramorama The Message of Newtown: Please Don't Forget
Kim Snyder’s documentary examines how a community can even begin to recover in the wake of unspeakable tragedy.
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Come Watch Dave With Us!
We have come full circle, friends. The election is drawing to a close, and, with it, Political Theater. So we’re…
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CBS Mel Gibson Is Not Sorry
Indignant, yes, his appearance on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert suggested. But the disgraced star’s apology tour has been, overall, strikingly lacking in actual apologies.
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Head of State and the Allure of the Political Outsider
Head of State’s climactic scene finds the presidential campaign that the film has revolved around—D.C. alderman Mays Gilliam…
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Lauren Garfinkel Donald Trump, Circus Peanut
The artist Lauren Garfinkel has come up with a zesty solution to campaign fatigue: the Republican candidate made out of candy.
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP Hulu’s Bid to Replace Cable
The company has struck a deal with Disney and Fox to provide live TV to subscribers—but cord-cutters might not care enough to pay extra.
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Track of the Day: ‘What A Fool Believes’ by Aretha Franklin
A reader, Tom Schroeder, tries to lift us up as we approach the end of this death march…
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Chris Pizzello / AP The Stickiest Hit of 2016 Is Appropriately Depressed
Why the Chainsmokers’ “Closer” has spent 11 weeks at No. 1
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Starbucks Politics, on Your Starbucks Cup
Why your coffee container looked different today
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Netflix Max Richter’s Soundtrack to Dystopia
The British composer describes how he creates scores for film and television projects like The Leftovers, Black Mirror, and Morgan.
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20th Century Fox How Rom-Coms Undermine Women
American culture has long been confused about the location of the line between love and violence. Hollywood deserves some of the blame for that.
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Hot Chocolate: The (Mostly) Sweet Reaction to Dark vs. Milk
“Don’t read the comments.” “Comments are the worst.” “Comments sections are cesspools where empathy and democracy and humanity…
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Track of the Day: ‘On a Monday’ by Ry Cooder
A reader dissents: Your Track of the Day feature is opening me up to new…
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John P. Robinson / HBO One Key to Westworld: Video Games
The HBO sci-fi drama has begun offering smart commentary on the appeal and limitations of fictional, immersive universes.
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Bob Donnan / USA Today Sports / Reuters How to Make the Most of a Predictable NBA Season
The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors will almost certainly make the Finals next June. So here’s how fans can appreciate all the games in the meantime.
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Netflix The Complex Humanity of Black Mirror
In its third season, the series achieves an imaginative moral and narrative depth that counteracts its often-dark scenarios.
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Kevork Djansezian / Reuters Solange and the Fading Tom Hanks: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
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A24 The Atlantic's Week in Culture
A roundup of our recent writing on arts and entertainment
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Amazon Studios Good Girls Revolt Shows How Far We Haven’t Come
The new Amazon series about a landmark 1970 workplace-equality lawsuit puts a sharp focus on the stunted progress of the last five decades.
