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Even today, Todd Haynes’s mesmerizing adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel comes as a shock� mostly for how much lesbian culture remains invisible to America at large.

Why the Future We Imagined In 1964 Was Wrong

What’s worse than being depicted as a bloodthirsty power-monger with a filthy mouth? Depicting yourself so blandly that no one cares.

We are still stuck in 2003, and it isn’t (only) George W. Bush’s fault.

As the late-night comedy landscape reshuffles, are right-wing comics being unfairly ignored? An investigation.

Again? But the harder their enemies hit, the stronger the couple becomes.

Act One is an infectious evocation of a vibrant world written, it turns out, by a chronic depressive who also found the business �pure hell.�

The conservative news channel’s only real power is in riling up liberals, who by this point should know better.

A lifetime making sense of the extraordinary songwriter�as young fan; critic and �enemy�; and, by now, old friend.

If only 12 Years a Slave (or Roots, or any other wrenching American slave narrative) could move audiences beyond those already eager for a dose of feel-good shame.