As a teen, Laura Bond went all out to meet Depeche Mode — and to hang onto her best friend.
pop culture
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Still Waters
The muted response to Todd Haynes’s “Dark Waters” is depressingly similar to our culture’s muted response to climate change
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The World’s Tallest Dwarf
Late capitalism gets an antihero show.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Story
Lindy West is Preaching to the Choir
Sara Fredman talks to author Lindy West on women and likability, the evolution of pop culture, and navigating conversations in a complex, messy world.
Posted inNonfiction
White Looks
Should white critics cover black culture? Only if they’re able to own their whiteness.
Posted inNonfiction
I’ll Be Loving You Forever
My best friend and the New Kids on the Block, 30 years later.
Posted inStory
Won’t You Be My Neighbor: An Anti-Hate Pop Culture Syllabus
Media and entertainment grounded in empathy are a critical part of a saner culture — and we can all help by actively producing, seeking, and supporting it.
Posted inNonfiction
How Do You Move Past a Dad?
Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism
The Blaming of the Shrew
Golden Age antiheroes and the nasty women who humanized them.