Political Nuance Can’t Save “Jack Ryan” From Its Clichéd Characters
When the first trailer for Amazon Prime’s new series, “Jack Ryan,” dropped, it looked practically antiquated. It appeared to be ...
Arts & Culture
Not Another Dead Girl: HBO’s “Sharp Objects” Foregrounds Women’s Rage
Warning: This article contains major spoilers for “Sharp Objects.” Finishing up its first—and reportedly only—eight-episode run on Aug. 26, HBO’s ...
From “Jurassic World” to “Mission Impossible”: Ranking the Summer’s Biggest Movies
Each summer, Hollywood releases many of its biggest movies. They’re the kinds that can cost over $200 million to produce ...
Exploring Privacy in the Information Age, from Franzen to Frankenstein
When novelist Jonathan Franzen delivered his privacy manifesto to The New Yorker in 1998, “online” was stylized as “on-line”. He had ...
Bolin’s “Dead Girls” Addresses Female Victimhood, On-Screen and Off
“I have tried to make something about women from stories that were always and only about men,” writes Alice Bolin ...
“Barry” Mixes Bleak Violence With Goofy Humor
“Hitman discovers his passion for acting” is not exactly a compelling story premise. It sounds like fertile ground for broad, ...
Beyondless is Carefully Orchestrated Disorder
Beyondless is the fourth studio album from Danish punk band Iceage. Few bands have the power that Iceage has to ...
Armchair Art Critics: Five Takes on Rabineau ’20’s Usdan Creation
There’s something wrong with one of the armchairs in Usdan. Upholstered in blue fabric and tucked away from the coffee ...
“Life is a Dream” Explores Freedom, Fate, and Family
With both “Rhinoceros” and “Life is a Dream” going up this past weekend, philosophical contemplations took center stage at Wesleyan. After ...
Saga Prioritizes Accessibility and Innovation
I was never the kind of kid who read graphic novels—it always seemed to me to be a world that ...