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We all know the formula: it begins with a dead body, and quickly introduces a motley crew ... more

Since it was penned more than four hundred years ago, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has been in p... more

The American musical is in a state of flux. Today’s Broadway offerings are mostly jukebox ... more

Vince Gilligan’s new show, “Pluribus,” opens with an unconventional apocalypse. A benevole... more

On October 19th, a group of masked men broke into the Louvre in broad daylight and made of... more

Padma Lakshmi is unquestionably a woman of taste. As a host of the beloved food-competitio... more

Horror movies are big business: this year, they’ve accounted for more ticket sales in the ... more

On August 7, 1985, five family members were shot dead in their English country manor, Whit... more

Generative A.I., once an uncanny novelty, is now being used to create not only images and ... more

In the latest installment of the Critics at Large advice series, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi ... more

Scrutiny of the figure of the “trad wife” has hit a fever pitch. These influencers’ accoun... more

Over the course of his three-decade career, the director Paul Thomas Anderson has dramatiz... more

In contemporary cookbooks—and in the burgeoning realm of online cooking content—there’s of... more

In the past twenty years, more than a third of all American newspapers have shuttered; tru... more

Last week, it was announced that Polymarket—a site where you can bet on basically anything... more

Though the character known as Labubu has been around for a decade, the toy version—around ... more

In the early days of the Hollywood studio system, producers exerted far greater creative c... more

Nineteenth-century Americans regarded Paris as a libertine paradise: a smorgasbord of food... more

On paper, a thirty-three-year-old socialist would seem an unlikely contender for mayor of ... more

Two weeks ago, when Paramount cancelled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” insiders in ... more

Ari Aster’s wildly divisive new movie “Eddington” drops audiences back into the chaos of M... more

Audiences have been bemoaning the death of the romantic comedy for years, but the genre pe... more

It’s a confusing time to travel. Tourism is projected to hit record-breaking levels this y... more

The word “diva” comes from the world of opera, where divinely talented singers have enrapt... more

Yiyun Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow” is a bracingly candid memoir of profound loss: o... more

Though Jane Austen went largely unrecognized in her own lifetime—four of her six novels we... more

“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong’s latest work, a ripped-from-the-headlines sendup of ... more

 “Sesame Street,” which first aired on PBS in 1969, was born of a progressive idea: that c... more

There’s arguably no better time for falling down a cultural rabbit hole than the languid, ... more

In the weeks since Pope Francis’s passing, the internet has been flooded by papal memes, e... more