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‘TV Has This Really Fraught Relationship with the Audience.’
Emily Nussbaum talks about why TV’s relationship with its audience has become more intimate, whether we can blame Trump on True Detective, and how a TV critic’s biggest challenge is just figuring out what to watch.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Hollywood and Hygiene: Sanitary Conditions in the Age of Coronavirus
From not cleaning equipment to not having handwashing stations to the way crews eat, film and TV sets have long been lacking in basic sanitation, and no union contracts stipulate basic standards about hygiene. COVID-19 might change that.
Posted inEditor's Pick
If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode
“Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.”
Posted inReading List
Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games
Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.
Posted inNonfiction
The Great British Reading List
A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.
Posted inFeature
“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day”
Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
A Close Look at the Thing We Call ‘Celebrity’
Why do we care about famous people?
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The World’s Tallest Dwarf
Late capitalism gets an antihero show.
Posted inNonfiction
‘This Wasn’t His First Time’
A kidnapping deemed a hoax, the newbie detective who cracked the case, and the Harvard-trained lawyer whose mental unraveling set the whole story in motion.
