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July 16, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Is America Insane?
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen finds humor, outrage, and offense in the United States under Trump.
July 13, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Scarlett Johansson won’t play a trans man after all.
July 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Sacred Games
Reinvents the Police Procedural
Netflix's first Indian original series is a sprawling caper that bleeds into the mystical.
July 5, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Three Identical Men and a Mystery
A new documentary about the chance reunion of long-lost triplets contains a dark episode of American history at its core.
July 3, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Rod Dreher’s Bad History
On the pernicious ideology at the heart of the conservative blogger's infatuation with Western civilization.
June 29, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Sorry to Bother You
Is a Brilliant Black Comedy About Race, Labor, and Magic
Lakeith Stanfield stars as a rising telemarketing employee trapped between precarity and ruthless corporate forces.
June 26, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Puzzled by
Westworld
? Look to Shakespeare.
How ‘The Tempest’ illuminates the second season of the labyrinthine HBO show.
June 22, 2018
Jo Livingstone
We’re Going to Need a Bigger Island
'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' takes the franchise in new directions, while paying loving homage to its predecessors.
June 20, 2018
Jo Livingstone
America’s “Poster Child” Syndrome
The only images that can make people care about the plight of migrants are those of suffering children. That's a problem.
June 19, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The Incredibles 2
Addresses the State of the Union
In 2018, children's cinema is technologically advanced, a lot of fun, and unnervingly aware.
June 15, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The Empty Space of Rachel Cusk
In 'Kudos,' the novelist meditates on justice, the stories people tell themselves, and the difference between the two.
June 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
In
Ocean’s 8
, Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
The latest in the heist series pays lip service to women's equality, but the gang can't quite get its message straight.
June 8, 2018
Jo Livingstone
How not to screw up media coverage of suicides.
June 8, 2018
Jo Livingstone
In Bill Clinton’s New Thriller, the Final Villain Is Feminism
A spoiler-filled review of 'The President Is Missing,' a fun, overlong novel that rips from the headlines while being out of step with the times.
June 7, 2018
Magazine
Jo Livingstone
Here and Now
The bold, vivid worlds of Rachel Kushner’s novels
June 5, 2018
Jo Livingstone
What’s So Bad About the C-Word?
On Samantha Bee, Ivanka Trump, and the rhetorical power of English’s strongest epithet.
June 1, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The Seymour Hersh Weekly
The veteran reporter's new memoir is a paean to the golden age of American journalism—for better and for worse.
May 30, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Shaking the Tree
The memoir of a professional tree-climber reveals the agony and the ecstasy of life at the top of the world.
May 29, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Why did a Russian man vandalize a painting of Ivan the Terrible?
May 23, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Poor Mary Shelley!
A new biopic continues a long tradition of obscuring the "Frankenstein" author's genius.
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