What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever intended to do?

What’s the worst thing that’s happened because of something you’ve done? 

The Drama, A24’s latest starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, forces its audience to think about these questions. In doing so, it also forces its audience to consider ...

Life and especially death are full of uncertainty. In television, movies, and many commercially successful novels and memoirs, there seems to be an unspoken rule that death must fulfill a specific narrative purpose—a turning point that carries with it the twins of closure and growth. But real life is not at all this tidy or convenient. And when the death involves sudden disap...

The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances is a new science fiction novel by Glenn Dixon set in the near future, where artificial intelligence has become integrated with every aspect of society. From large-scale geographic planning to the most hu...

Directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch have an uncanny ability to draw us into their strange worlds, filled with engaging yet often unlikable characters. They manage worldbuilding beautifully with a touch of the uncanny. And then there’s a moment when everything they’ve built topples like a deck of cards. Nothing is what it seems. It’s wonderfully disorienting.

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There is a very specific cultural muscle memory that activates when a former boy band walks onstage. It doesn’t matter if you are now divorced, professionally sidelined by a Gen Z intern, or hovering uneasily at fifty. The scream is still in your body. The choreography is still in your bones. Nostalgia, Emma Straub suggests in her latest novel, is less a feeling than a reflex...