The New York Times set out to name the best television of the twenty-first century, in any language and from around the world. So why is the resulting list so myopic and limited?
While Eva Marie Saint was the last star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, it was television’s Golden Age where she began her long career. It was television and then even newer formats like podcasting that sustained it.
A new global boycott on Antarctic krill comes as major retailers withdraw krill products from their shelves to protect whales and other marine life.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hurdles to open a school are so low, could we do it?
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes a bloody, playful knife to decades of queer horror tropes. Scott Malia explores how the film turns the slasher genre’s fraught history of sexuality, gender and monstrosity inside out.
In an uncanny nineteenth-century world of artists and doomed expeditions, a nervous husband secretly witnesses the terrifying, miraculous birth of his daughter.
Annie Dillard, who died this month at 81, transformed creative nonfiction by bringing the intensity, music and mysticism of poetry into prose.
In 1933, everyone thought machines would eventually replace people, with one exception. Today, we’re not so sure if there are any exceptions….
A scandalous tale of adultery, voyeurism and revenge, The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) stars dead insects brought uncannily to life in one of cinema’s earliest stop-motion masterpieces.
Here’s to no more wars on Yom Kippur … or ever. The Yom Kippur War was fought by Israel and the Coalition of Arab states
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