How ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ became America’s most banned book
Maia Kobabe grew up in an idyll. Cow fields threaded by a dirt road. No TV. Almost no internet. Nights fell over hills, stars shone bright, and Kobabe read fantasy...
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Best of 2019 culture: OK Gen Z, the boomers were listening this year, sort of
Her voice is weary yet chilling, telling us she is not complicit in a world edging toward destruction. She's still in her teens, an inheritor of generations leaving her the...
‘The Irishman’ is now on Netflix. And Martin Scorsese has a few more things to say
Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman," which has had a limited run in theaters, begins streaming on Netflix on Wednesday. The epic film's arrival ends a decade-long odyssey that brought a master...
‘The Penguin Book of Migration Literature’ brings together Salman Rushdie, Edwidge Danticat in a collection echoing with wit and nostalgia
We are a world of migrants, a planet of comings and goings. The itinerant carry stories of pain and remembrance, cruelty and kindness, renewal and possibility. They move among us,...
Analysis: Watergate was a TV spectacle. Just wait for the reboot: Trump
He sat in a tan suit and a blue shirt. His mouth pressed close to a silver microphone. His words came slowly, as if each was climbing out from beneath...
Commentary: Trump’s Jewish comments play on anti-Semitism in culture, film and art
Nazi caricatures of Jews as conniving, scurrilous schemers - a people of hooked noses and sinister motives - infused the art, literature, film and propaganda that led to the Holocaust....
How Sharon Tate transfixed Hollywood, 50 years before ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’
In death, Sharon Tate was born into myth, an "it" girl with a canyon house, a famous director husband, and a beauty Hollywood craved as its mirror in an age...
Kathy Griffin made $75 million making people laugh. But the phone’s not ringing
Kathy Griffin's uncle was a bagman. Her cousin was a priest who wore blue eyeshadow. Her favorite writer when she was a girl in Chicago was columnist Mike Royko. He...
Georgia’s abortion ban forces political reckoning among TV and film workers
Zombies lurk beyond the train tracks. They have been here for years, working under lights, swatting mosquitoes, bringing eerie charm to streets of gothic homes and magnolia. Tourists come from...
Transgender YouTube star ContraPoints tries to change alt-right minds
Recording in a row-house studio on a working-class street, Natalie Wynn, a trans woman with defiant opinions and platinum wigs, has emerged as a popular YouTube provocateur, taking on right-wing...