“Succession,” which wrapped its brilliant first season on Sunday night, has all the trappings of a typical HBO prestige drama, with beautiful people in luxurious locales doing terrible things to one another. The series tells the story of Logan Roy Read More …
As Parliament, like the rest of Britain, heads into a two-week holiday recess—a national slow-down of turkey and mince-pie eating, in which ironic snowflake-patterned sweaters are worn, drunken games of charades are played, and relatives are argued with—the nation remains Read More …
I was taken aback when I heard, this spring, that Connie Britton had been cast as Debra Newell in “Dirty John,” Bravo’s adaptation of the noirish podcast from Wondery and the L.A. Times, from 2017, about a woman whose quest Read More …
To spend time on the Internet is to be inundated with the everyday habits of other people. We don’t even need to turn to social media; in recent years, breezy interviews with the notable and the not so notable have Read More …
Click:Glass perfume bottles We arrived in the night. Or maybe it wasn’t night yet, just late and dark. It had been similarly dark when we left our Moscow home that morning, and the hours spent in flight and in the Read More …
“Futurama,” created by Matt Groening, was a speculative fiction, set amid thirty-first-century technology, with a generous range of good gags and interstellar shenanigans. Each week’s adventure deployed the emblems of “Buck Rogers”–derived space operas in the service of an animated Read More …
Is there any good reason to step outside? The climate is dicey and you can’t count on a Wi-Fi connection. Besides, everything your heart desires can be whisked to your door by clicking “Buy Now.” These days, boxes are delivered Read More …
The cliché that great art emerges from great suffering—that pain and creativity are hopelessly entangled, and that contentment (or, God forbid, happiness) yields banal and unchallenging pap—is as pervasive as it is damaging, which makes it difficult to talk about Read More …
The most talked-about book in America—Mark Judge’s “Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk”—is one of the rarest books in the land. One day after Brett Kavanaugh danced around questions from Senator Patrick Leahy about the vomit- and blackout-filled incidents Read More …
In “The House at Pooh Corner,” A. A. Milne’s last book about Christopher Robin, the mop-haired boy bids farewell to Winnie-the-Pooh, the endearingly befuddled and honey-besotted bear. It is a bittersweet encounter. As they reflect on life and more, Christopher Read More …