January 27, 2021 – Five Shouts Out

One Good Thing: All Creatures Great and Small is cozy as a mug of tea on a rainy day

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James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) befriends a sick bull in All Creatures Great and Small. | PBS/Courtesy of Playground Television (UK) Ltd. [ecwid_product id="275603003" display="picture title price options addtobag" version="2" show_border="1"...

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Netflix’s misguided Night Stalker series treats its cops like gods

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Gil Carrillo in Night Stalker. | Netflix To be a true crime fan is to have a troubled dependence on the police. [ecwid_product id="163427967" display="picture title price options addtobag" version="2"...

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Twilight of the American antihero

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Amanda Northrop/Vox Donald Trump trails a long line of antiheroes, in fiction. [ecwid_product id="163427967" display="picture title price options addtobag" version="2" show_border="1" show_price_on_button="1" center_align="1"] In the spring of 2017, I reviewed...

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What Joan Didion means to us

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Joan Didion in Vogue in 1972. | Henry Clarke/Conde Nast via Getty Images Her new book, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, taps into what makes Didion an icon....

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Poems for a new year

EditorJanuary 27, 2021

Illustrations by Sarah Gonzales for Vox 7 poets — including Saeed Jones, Alex Dimitrov, and Patty Crane — meditate on the year we’ve had, the one ahead, and our dark,...