Why social media makes you feel so old
Getty Images/iStockphoto I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 82. Something is happening online wherein it has become fashionable for objectively young people to say that they feel hideously,...
America is damaged but hopeful in 4 excellent new movies
David Byrne in David Byrne’s American Utopia, which premieres October 17 on HBO. | Courtesy of HBO A drama, a documentary, and two filmed Broadway plays show a country at...
In Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin tackles an all-too-relevant court case
Eddie Redmayne in The Trial of the Chicago 7. | Niko Tavernise/Netflix The star-studded drama returns to the past with a purpose. Any time a story from history is retold...
Gothic novels are obsessed with borders. Mexican Gothic takes full advantage.
Zac Freeland/Vox The gothic novel is the perfect genre for thinking about empires. The Vox Book Club is linking to Bookshop.org to support local and independent booksellers. Mexican Gothic wears...
10 psychological haunted-house movies — for when the ghost might be you
The Orphanage (2007). | Warner Bros Feeling trapped in your own house or in your own mind? These twisty haunted-house films can relate. With the early-October arrival of The Haunting...
A Short Documentary on Perseverance and the Love of Books
It takes some guts to open an independent, bricks-and-mortar bookstore these days. But that’s what Josh Spencer did. He’s the proprietor of “The Last Bookstore,” the playfully-named shop located in downtown Los...