Sarah Cooper Has Mastered the Trump Joke
The comedian had used TikTok only a handful of times before her impersonation of the president garnered 15 million views. Now it’s making her rethink her routine.
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Andrew D. Bernstein The Mythos of Michael Jordan Continues
With its deep archival footage of the Bulls legend, The Last Dance was always going to be epic. Now it needs to fill the void of sports writ large.
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NBC The SNL Season Finale Doesn’t Sugarcoat Pandemic Anxiety
Unlike its previous at-home episodes, last night’s show embraced the existential crisis of the moment.
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Erin Kirkland The Beauty of Age
Scenes from an all-women’s nursing home
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Al Pereira / Getty Hip-Hop and R&B Were Once Disparate. Andre Harrell Changed That.
The industry icon, dead at 59, ushered in a new sound by bridging two musical worlds.
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Saeed Adyani / Netflix Hollywood Fails to Sell Its Own Fairy Tale
Ryan Murphy’s Netflix show presents a fantasy in which marginalized people get to make the film they want. But the fun thought exercise curdles into earnest nonsense.
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Ralph Morse / Life / Getty Little Richard Set the Mold by Breaking It
The “Tutti Frutti” singer and rock-and-roll pioneer, dead at age 87, embodied the word irrepressible.
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TCD / Prod.DB / Alamy / The Atlantic The Melancholia Postulate
What the 2011 apocalyptic film has to say about peace of mind in the face of annihilation
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Pavel Popov An Ode to Running in the Movies
What makes Harrison Ford such a great cinematic sprinter, and why does Tom Cruise always pump his arms like that?
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Library of Congress The Books Briefing: The Antidote to Uncertainty
The things you can and can’t control: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Amazon / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Upload Satirizes a Capitalist Heaven
The Amazon show is one of several recent works in which the afterlife darkly mimics earthly existence.
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Netflix The Times Have Changed. Seinfeld Hasn’t.
There’s something soothing about watching a comedian who has been telling the same jokes for decades.
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HBO Westworld Never Fixed Its Villain Problem
The dark side of big data is a fascinating subject for TV to tackle. It just doesn’t make for a great antagonist.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Uncertainty Became a Weapon in the Tara Reade Story
The treatment of her sexual-assault claim about Joe Biden has revealed a cultural impulse to take refuge in easy absolutes.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Foodie Culture as We Know It Is Over
A wave of culinary experts is responding to the pandemic with an accessible and empathetic approach to home cooking—and audiences can’t get enough.
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Jillian Freyer Homeless in a City Buffeted by Plague
Boston’s most vulnerable citizens are experiencing a drastic reduction in places to eat, places to sit, places to use the bathroom, places to be safe, places to be.
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Republic Records Drake Responds to the Pandemic in a Predictably Drake Way
The rapper is back with Dark Lane Demo Tapes—a batch of songs taking comfort in an antisocial status quo.
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Illustration: Paul Spella; Apple TV+ Trying Is a Sadcom in the Fleabag Mold
A new generation of TV comedies probes life’s bleak truths more pointedly than many dramas do.
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Araki Koman Introducing The Atlantic’s Sunday Crossword
We’re expanding our puzzles to the weekend, and launching a new feature so that you can play with friends.
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Lalitree Darnielle A Strangely Comforting Quarantine Album
The Mountain Goats’ latest release is authentically a product of this pandemic, but it’s also nicely indifferent to it.
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: Pace Yourself
The rituals of a routine life: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Chad Batka / The New York Times / ... There Was No One Like Irrfan Khan
The actor, who died yesterday at age 53, built a brilliant career and achieved a kind of global popularity with no precedent in Indian film history.
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