The Eeriness of the 2020 Disco Revival
As pop stars time-warped back to the ’70s and most nightclubs remained closed, dance music’s tensions felt oddly relevant.
As pop stars time-warped back to the ’70s and most nightclubs remained closed, dance music’s tensions felt oddly relevant.
Black fans of the Washington Football Team are adapting to a new future for their beloved franchise—and reckoning with its past disregard of Native Americans.
It’s too soon to know which images will become emblematic of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, but previous movements have shown the dangers of adhering to a singular narrative.
Emerald Fennell’s debut movie is a revenge thriller explicitly designed to subvert assumptions about femininity and serious works of art.
Viewers didn’t care about “good” or “bad” television this year. Maybe the distinction never mattered.
The shows that kept listeners refreshing their apps this year
In 2020, the world’s biggest band proved that it excels equally at massive spectacle and small-scale intimacy.
The new film from the director of Up and Inside Out has the aesthetics of a whimsical adventure, but its themes are very raw.
Seeking in the eloquent benders of Dylan Thomas and Herman Mankiewicz an answer to an ancient riddle
The memoirs, novels, and poetry that stood out most
Patty Jenkins’s long-awaited sequel is a charming and poignant end to a tiring year of cinema.
Two new Netflix films, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Giving Voice, honor the late playwright’s rejection of white commercial restrictions.
The cause produced undaunted trailblazers, Black and white, who continued to pursue social reform.
Go ahead, take one.
Netflix’s new adaptation of August Wilson’s play understands the singular magic of the blues.
The incident on location for Mission: Impossible 7 is indicative of how film sets have become pressure cookers during the pandemic.
Rebel historians chronicle a past that the Chinese Communist Party grows ever more intent on erasing.
In 2020, tackling 121 episodes of a single show was no longer as daunting as it once seemed.
Head writers weigh in on how comedy could change as the country transitions to a new administration.
Former New England Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett believes there aren’t enough Black characters in children’s literature—and he wants to change that.
A selection of the most illuminating music to come out of a dark year, handpicked by our staffers
Evermore, the singer’s second surprise folkie album of the year, sees the cringes-to-chills ratio move in the wrong direction.