Summer TV Used to Mean Something, Damn ItOnce upon a time, television programming mirrored the rhythms of life. Now it’s become the calendar version of the endless scroll.
The Fantasy of HealingWriter Vanessa Angélica Villarreal found life after divorce where she least expected it — as a witcher in a fantasy role-playing video game.
ByVanessa Angélica Villarreal
remembrances
The Naomi Shelton We KnewAn evening remembering the late Gospel Queen, village voice, and forever friend.
Fight Club Spoke to MeTwenty-five years later, a novel that shouldn’t have resonated still does.
ByIsle McElroy
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I Don’t See an End to ThisDaBaby’s vile remarks about gay sex and AIDS mixed with the furor over Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby” have made for the eye of a perfect shitstorm.
Just Another Morning in Good Ol’ AmericaMorgan Wallen’s GMA interview didn’t so much begin a redemption tour as it did extend a winning streak that’s gone strong for decades.
ByAndrea Williams
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What Reckoning?Country music is exactly where it was a year ago, when the dam on the industry’s ocean of racism supposedly broke. Duh.
Perhaps It’s Time to Consider UnschoolingThings are falling apart, so why not take these weeks or months to let your children — and yourselves — think and learn outside the academic box.