Culture

Did the former Smiths frontman ever stop being a provocateur?

Many observers noticed a tension in LGBT+ ideology between social constructivism and (some kind of biological) determinism

Dominic Green and Art Tavana discuss the fate of the deplatformed provocateur

Aniara reviewed

From a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq

Game of Thrones’s climax presents a problem for America’s prestige publications

Non-Fiction reviewed

Marketers hyped millennials up so that advertisers could sell us products

Of course he was

The service’s algorithms have shaped a generation of listeners who are defined by attention deficit disorder and a fear of complexity and difficulty

Paradise Lost in Washington, DC

A Fortunate Man reviewed

Much ado about Shakespeare in Indian cinema

Skip the political cold-open every week

Ruining Game of Thrones is in the global interest for Godfrey

Critics who only write about shallow subjects will only produce shallow writing

The Get Out director snuffs out the magic of The Twilight Zone

Girls of the Sun reviewed

His author wanted something more than an action hero

Amazing Grace reviewed

The strangest Melania and Ivanka Trump illustrations the internet has to offer

When it comes to sport, soccer is the world’s game, and the US is playing catch-up

The Brink reviewed

When I was a young boy, I socialized plenty and spent very little time inside the house