The New Yorker - All Culture

The sequel, which reunites Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt, is familiar and at times preposterous—but it’s also a savvy, shiny reflection of our era.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is often held up as the exemplar of the Hollywood mega-franchise. The “Fast” movies may have been just as influential.

The culture has transitioned from memeing one man’s death to delighting in the memeing of wars in real time.

Hurst captured the country’s culture—from public rituals of the cult of Santa Muerte to scenes from everyday life—with no small amount of homoeroticism.

Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally shattered country.