The Americans shows us one way to write a female antihero.
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Don’t Let It ‘Go’ Away: The Frantic, Furious Making of a Cult Movie Classic
Twenty years after its release, director Doug Liman, screenwriter John August, and others recall the production of their 1999 indie film Go.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Good Bad Wives of Ozark and House of Cards
What if a TV antihero and his wife were partners instead of rivals?
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Feature
The Blaming of the Shrew
Golden Age antiheroes and the nasty women who humanized them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Current Events
On Blackface, Bert Williams, and Excellence
A complicated racial anxiety rests at the heart of American entertainment.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
Queer Eye Is an Upbeat Documentary of a Failing Social Order
How a hard-not-to-love show glosses over the powers that produced its makeover subjects.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Author Carmen Maria Machado on the Next Phase of #MeToo
Carmen Maria Machado discusses the nuances of “benevolent sexism,” who gets to define the #MeToo movement, and how it should progress.
Posted inNonfiction
When ‘The Real World’ Gave Up on Reality
The true story of the exact moment in the mid-Nineties when reality television morphed from its best self to its worst.
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How Reese Witherspoon is Flipping the Script on Hollywood
A profile of actor, director, producer, and literary taste-maker Reese Witherspoon, with a focus on her influential media company, Hello Sunshine, through which she’s creating roles and jobs for women, and changing the way movies and shows are made.
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes
Why Were We All So Upset About Jason Bateman?
Never underestimate the insidious, destructive power of gaslighting, especially public gaslighting.