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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’s bonkers plot twist, explained

By Aja Romano

Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend doesn’t just compel people to read, but to travel

By Aditi Shrikant

Jonathan Franzen’s new essay collection is a bird-obsessed, condescending mess

By Constance Grady November 16

The best movies out this weekend

13 great films now in theaters and on streaming.

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The author of The Princess Bride shaped pop culture as few screenwriters have

By Aja Romano November 16

Green Book builds a feel-good comedy atop an artifact of shameful segregation. Yikes.

By Alissa Wilkinson November 16

HBO’s My Brilliant Friend adaptation is a knockout

By Todd VanDerWerff November 16

Cam has the brilliant audacity to argue that the internet isn’t about connecting people

By Aja Romano November 16

Bohemian Rhapsody loves Freddie Mercury’s voice. It fears his queerness.

By Aja Romano November 16

The guidebook that helped black Americans travel during segregation

By Coleman Lowndes November 16

In Widows, Viola Davis’s heist crew captivates even when the story stumbles

By Alissa Wilkinson November 16

Netflix’s Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an old West folk tale, with a signature Coen brothers twist

By Alissa Wilkinson November 16

Netflix’s The Princess Switch is the best kind of dumb, cozy Christmas movie

By Constance Grady November 16

How Kristen Bell’s terrific performance grounds The Good Place’s wildest season yet

By Todd VanDerWerff, Alissa Wilkinson, and 1 other November 15

Monica Lewinsky is finally having her moment

By Anna North November 15

It took 46 years for Aretha Franklin’s concert doc to come out. The wait was worth it.

By Alissa Wilkinson November 15

Jell-O is finally capitalizing on the Instagram slime trend

By Kaitlyn Tiffany November 15

Sigrid Nunez wins the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend

By Constance Grady November 15

We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2018. Here’s what we thought.

By Constance Grady, Todd VanDerWerff, and 17 others November 15

Watch: Every Stan Lee cameo from every single Marvel movie he appeared in

By Alex Abad-Santos November 14

Why history will have trouble remembering Marvel's Stan Lee as a good guy

By Alex Abad-Santos November 14

12 years after mocking Al Gore’s fight against climate change, South Park reconsiders

By Todd VanDerWerff November 14

How corporate cash bought higher education

By Sean Illing November 14

How Willem Dafoe learned to paint like Vincent Van Gogh

By Alissa Wilkinson November 14

The best part of Michelle Obama’s new memoir is how much smack she talks about her husband

By Constance Grady November 13

The 5 biggest takeaways from Michelle Obama’s revealing new memoir

By Stavros Agorakis November 13

Michelle Obama left her job so her husband could be president. Now it’s her turn to shine.

By Anna North November 13

Michelle Obama says she’ll “never forgive” Trump for putting her family at risk

By Constance Grady November 13

Michelle Obama’s story of “talking white” shines a light on the complexities of code-switching

By P.R. Lockhart November 13

Michelle Obama’s Becoming is a master class in walking the First Lady Tightrope

By Constance Grady November 13

I was on a Forbes 30 under 30 list. Here are the hidden privileges that made me a “success.”

By Aditi Juneja November 13

Game of Thrones’ final season will premiere in April 2019

By Alex Abad-Santos November 13

“I didn’t really think he could win”: Michelle Obama’s new memoir reveals why she let Barack run for president

By Stavros Agorakis November 13

Stan Lee, the godfather of Marvel comics, dies at 95

By Alex Abad-Santos November 12

The Pokémon Detective Pikachu trailer is tearing Pokémon fans apart

By Alex Abad-Santos November 12

Criminal profiling doesn’t work. TV shows should maybe stop celebrating it.

By Dylan Matthews November 12

YouTube is full of cringey, clickbait DIY channels. They’re even weirder than you think.

By Rebecca Jennings November 12

My parents give me $28,000 a year

By E.J. Roller November 12

Riverdale’s return to the ’90s is the show at its nonsensical batshit best

By Constance Grady November 11

It was a nostalgic end for Saturday Night Live’s Jeff Sessions

By Rachel Withers November 11

Ariana Grande’s greatest asset isn’t her amazing voice. It’s her resilience.

By Alex Abad-Santos November 11

The life, death, and rebirth of Jennifer’s Body, according to screenwriter Diablo Cody

By Todd VanDerWerff November 10

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