In Season 2, Episode 6 of the Netflix series The Crown, titled “Vergangenheit,” Queen Elizabeth II confronts a devastating family secret. Historians have unearthed the Marburg Files — captured Nazi documents from 1945 that detail that her uncle, the Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII), had extensive contacts with the Nazi high command […]
Gone are the days when stars seemed to go from strength to strength — when Tom Hanks, for instance, followed Philadelphia with Forrest Gump, and Forrest Gump with Apollo 13, and Apollo 13 with Toy Story. Far more common is the stop-and-start trajectory of even an actress as comely and appealing as Sydney Sweeney, whose […]
The other day, I mentioned to a new acquaintance my work as a TV critic for this magazine. I won’t elide the point: I was bragging. As sometimes happens, however, my boast spun around like a boomerang and knocked my teeth out. “There is much to criticize!” my friend replied with a laugh. That shut […]
Writer David Foster Wallace‘s doorstopper 1996 novel, Infinite Jest, has just been reissued in a 30th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner. Oddly, when reading that foreword, one has to wade through a good deal of discussion of its readership’s demographic before one reads anything about the text itself. The ratio of words […]
In his new novel Vigil, George Saunders puts us in the mind of an angel who crashes to earth for the purpose of comforting a dying sinner. Not just any sinner. Her “charge,” as she calls him throughout, is the kind of sinner some readers may think is least deserving of comfort. K.J. Boone, the […]
The Department of Justice sued five additional states, requesting voter roll data as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to access election records.
Red states are winning the corporate headquarters battle as Texas dominates relocations while California bleeds business losses in unprecedented shift.
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...