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20 Undersung Crime Shows to Binge-Watch
Propulsive thrillers, slow-burn procedurals, and more for your every quarantine mood
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Jamie Squire / Getty Why the Super Bowl Was a Game Changer for the NFL
Sunday’s showing offered a blueprint for a potentially dynamic chapter in professional football.
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Georg Hochmuth / Reuters The Pandemic Has Made a Mockery of Minimalism
Smaller, slower, fewer, isolated—the values of virus containment look eerily like modern luxury aesthetics.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Netflix’s Accidental Coup
The streaming service is thriving at a time when many industries, including theaters and movie studios, are frozen.
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Tim Macpherson / Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / ... You Will Never Be Forgotten Explores Grief in a Near-Future World
Mary South’s stories of loss are deft parables about the false protection of machines. They also feel particularly apt right now.
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Lee Friedlander Philip Roth’s Terrible Gift of Intimacy
During his last two decades, we spent thousands of hours in each other’s company. It was a little like a marriage; I couldn’t have done without it.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic Variations on a Phrase by Cormac McCarthy
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John-Paul Steele / Barcroft Media / Getty / ... The Secret of Scooby-Doo’s Enduring Appeal
Why on earth has the formulaic series, which debuted half a century ago, outlasted just about everything else on television?
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Gabriel Zimmer The Coronavirus Prayer
A pandemic that won’t last forever and ever, amen
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Moviestore Collection / Entertainment Pictures / Alamy / ... 22 Movies About the End of the World to Watch Now
These films aren’t all bleak—or obviously about an apocalypse. But each has timeless insights into how humans respond in times of crisis.
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Ernesto Artillo A Novelist’s Ambition to Define America
Robert Stone set out to capture the national condition in fiction, a goal that’s more relevant than ever.
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BEATRICE DE GEA / The New York Times Fiona Apple’s Survival Guide to Isolation
Fetch the Bolt Cutters, the singer’s first album in eight years, argues that confinement can intensify one’s connection to the greater human whole.
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: What Personal Letters Reveal About Human Struggles
Dear faraway friends and lovers: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Olivia Arthur / Redux Pictures Why Boredom Affects Us So Much
If being isolated at home is starting to feel like your own personal prison, it’s because tedium is also used as a severe form of carceral punishment.
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Hulu We’re Living in Phyllis Schlafly’s America
A striking new miniseries reveals the conservative author’s deep impact on contemporary politics.
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Elijah Barrett The Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist
A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?
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Hannah Whitaker The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction
What the coronavirus outbreak reveals is not the unreality of our present moment, but the illusions it shatters.
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Kristen Radtke What’s Your Most Important Memory of Touch?
Amid a pandemic that is profoundly decreasing skin-on-skin contact, the author asked people to share their most affecting tactile experiences.
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Chen Hsiang Liu / Netflix The Film That Captures a Different Kind of Isolation
In a time of heightened xenophobia toward Asians, Alan Yang’s Tigertail offers a deeply personal examination of a Taiwanese immigrant’s life.
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Getty The Strange Pleasure of Planning a Post-Pandemic Vacation
For people hoping to travel after the crisis passes, Pinterest helps them envision a future that feels impossible to imagine right now.
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Getty / Nick Wall / The Atlantic The Woman Who Is Remaking AMC
“The least safe thing to do is something safe,” says Sarah Barnett, the unconventional TV executive behind Killing Eve, which is back for a third season.
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Asia Pietrzyk After the Pandemic, the Office Dress Code Should Never Come Back
Are “fancy” sweatpants here for good?
