So many people who think they have the chops to write Who Goes Nazi "but updated for today!!!," so few who actually do.

had to do a little light search and scroll to see what people were subposting angrily about, we're so fucking back

This is such a frustrating thing to see when there are so few outlets for book reviews left. Just a waste of precious space and resources. open.substack.com/pub/markoppe...

PSA: Apparently someone is reaching out to authors promising them feature coverage in the Vox Book Club in exchange for cash. Authors: This is not us! We do not do pay to play! Be careful, keep an eye on your cash, and check the domain name if anyone emails you out of the blue.

I did a quick rundown on former prince Andrew's decades of scandals, and why Charles is not interested in protecting him the way their mother was www.vox.com/culture/4797...

Said it before and I'll say it again: I have written about a lot of famous sexual predators, and the response I got from people who were ostensibly Depp fans was specific and targeted in a way I had not seen before then, but recognized at once with Baldoni.

please, my Wuthering Heights thoughts … there are so many of them … www.vox.com/culture/4793...

wow y'all weren't lying when you said the new wuthering heights was smooth-brained, huh

I certainly would not have guessed circa 1997 that he would be the one from the original cast of Buffy who would be the lead on a network show for all but two of the last 30 years

they never leave a girl a little subtext to have fun writing about

I wrote about how the roots of the right's obsession with "AWFULs" can be found on the left www.vox.com/culture/4789...

JVDB had such a phenomenal second act to his career. He was so funny and so sharp about tweaking the WB years in a way no one expected from him. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

I wrote about the Bad Bunny halftime show, and whether the vibe shift ever really happened www.vox.com/culture/4786...

I for one would be having more fun of if I didn’t have to keep writing feminism 101 explainers of why this kind of thing is bad

I can never get over how funny the opening of Wuthering Heights is. Lockwood's inner monologue is all "Hello, Heathcliff! Like you, I am hot and brooding, so you and I will have A LOT to talk about ;)"

This is really well done biographical criticism (trigger warning like all get out) www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...

As the Epstein files keep dribbling out with more and more names, I keep thinking about Tina Brown's private jet theory of the world — namely, that powerful people will put up with a lot of shit if it means they get to fly private tinabrown.substack.com/p/after-flyi...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

ESJ really popping off with this one episodes.ghost.io/vibe-shift/?...

Heated Rivalry is not quite my ministry, BUT I am delighted to have a chance to talk about why male/male romance is so popular with so many women www.vox.com/culture/4750...

My boring take on Marty Supreme is that if the film is going to build two emotional turning points around ping-pong games, it should actually do the sports movie thing of teaching the audience how to watch ping-pong.

Once you start thinking about how many pieces of technology were developed to share dubiously consensual pictures of women's bodies, you can't stop seeing it. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4747...

No Ice rally in DC today

I'm interested that both MTG and Erika Kirk are aiming to play the public role of "forgiving Christian woman" right now. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4744...

The first thing I did when I woke up this morning was look up this @joshuakeating.bsky.social piece from last month to understand what happened last night. www.vox.com/politics/470...

I am interested in the resonances between the fantasy of leaving the country and the fantasy of the trad wife! I wrote about it here www.vox.com/culture/4732...

"We often talk about the idea of fleeing America and its feeble social safety net as a liberating, progressive act...But the idea of escaping the work-life balance trap has darker echoes in contemporary American pop culture" Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...

Best! Books! www.vox.com/culture/4723...

Quite the specific stylistic choice here in C.K.'s final book

When I was in college I would binge-read Sophie Kinsella books all the way through finals week and into vacation as my reward for all the studying. She understood how to write a novel as light and frothy as a bubble bath. What a loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...

"He cannot just be president. He also has to be a good TV star. He has to win the approval of the culturati, which is the one thing he will never quite get." - @constancegrady.bsky.social

Thinking about Bugonia (which slaps) and how much it weirdly reminds me of Homeland s1. Something about the intimacy between two people trying to convince each other of a specific picture of the world, and the audience unable to determine which worldview is correct — there's a lot of power there.

Loved this @constancegrady.bsky.social joint on Hamnet, Hamlet, and the debate over "grief porn." www.vox.com/culture/4714...

I am weighing in on the Hamnet grief porn debate www.vox.com/culture/4714...

ICE is trying to claim the power to decide who gets to be a part of America, and their ads give us a glimpse into who they believe America is. Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.

“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?” What a legacy he had. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

oh we're over clothing trends now, they said. we're really in the era of embracing timeless fashion that will never look dated. buy it for once, buy it for life!

This very good take makes me think that on occassions where the penultimate flashback episode is the best of the season (e.g. The Rook, the worst show I have ever loved), it's a tell that the main mystery is bad www.vulture.com/article/penu...

I see that pop culture discourse finally hit bluesky, only to take the form of the most annoying form of pop culture discourse on Twitter in 2019.

A film you've seen more than seven times with a GIF

back on my bullshit about what bad nerds these people are www.vox.com/culture/4668...

god when Crispin hits she hits theamericanscholar.org/what-is-an-a...

My favorite niche drama just got hotter

Honestly this is the most beautifully written investigation of gooning a person could hope to read harpers.org/archive/2025...

Philip Pullman's new book finishing up Lyra's story came out yesterday! I wrote about how Pullman fits into the past few decades of American book banning www.vox.com/culture/4659...

imagine putting your co-byline on this graf this when your career since the 1990s has been entirely about railing against the excesses of the left

There's a new Next Page out today, and we're dipping into the fall prestige books! Mitfords, McEwan, and Lockwood, oh my www.vox.com/next-page-ne...

What are some good literary essays you've read recently? (Asking for a newsletter.)