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April 3, 2026
A Marriage, Turned Into Epic Theater
Lily Allen’s West End Girl tour makes her astonishing concept album even better.
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March 20, 2026
The People Are Starved for Romance
Culture has little interest in love anymore. The consequences could be dire.
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March 6, 2026
<em>America’s Next Top Model</em> Groomed a Generation
The long-running reality series taught Millennials that beauty is work. We’re still recovering.
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February 21, 2026
Why the <em>Wuthering Heights</em> Movie Is Infantilizing
Everyone is 12 now, all the time.
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February 20, 2026
An Extraordinary Account of a Dangerous Marriage
Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir is an astonishingly honest look at her life with a man who did the unthinkable.
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January 27, 2026
Less <em>Lolita</em>, More Late-Stage Capitalism
Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age may seem like a story of exploitation—but it’s much more intriguing than that.
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January 16, 2026
The Unspeakable, Enabled
This year will decide whether gendered abuse in real life and online becomes the norm.
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January 10, 2026
<em>The Pitt </em>Is a Brilliant Portrait of American Failure
The HBO Max show has a moral clarity that’s hard to find of late on television.
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