watching The Great Escape and trying not to whisper "they used to make movies" … it simply cannot be done …

kind of shocking how true this is. I can't stop thinking about it. theonion.com/name-one-mas...

god I'm excited for all the discourse about Sebastian Stan transforming himself into a Romanian-speaking David Cross when Fjord comes to the US

when the credit sequence was just a man's head floating in front of your second grade picture day backdrop … they used to make real television

My quest to kill this zombie statistic continues. People are constantly repeating that women buy 80% of fiction, but that statistic is based on nothing! It is probably made up!

from “with a v” to “not that murdoch”

Periodic reminder that if you subscribe to Next Page, you get my hot takes on the new releases! e.g. I am the only critic who liked the new McInerney, and subscribers know why www.vox.com/next-page-ne...

I thoroughly enjoyed the Guardian's 100 book list, but given the apparent lack of consideration to novels from South America, Asia, and Africa, I wish they had just gone ahead and just called it the 100 best novels of the Western tradition.

So the Anthropic copyright settlement website turned out to be extremely weird and glitchy! This encounter @maureenjohnsonbooks.com had is living rent free in my mind www.vox.com/culture/4878...

boy do I have an essay series for you www.vox.com/culture/2245...

The second of the Big Five to unionize!

I wrote about Lena Dunham, how she became a symbol of cancel culture, and whether we've all changed since 2014 www.vox.com/culture/4870...

shoutout to my blush on that day btw

Essays in my head that I will never write: a thread.

While a great read, @constancegrady.bsky.social explains why the ending leaves more to be desired.

When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse

lmao do y'all remember the controversy over whether Lena Dunham is bad at writing men I'm ready to say it now: that one was stupid. she is good at it.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Yesteryear BUT I thought the ending fell flat. Let's talk tradwives! www.vox.com/culture/4863...

Lena not NOT going for the Taylor voice here

Oof, how to get to Heaven from Belfast. Some of the best individual scenes I've seen on TV for a while, but the pacing and the tonal shifts were an absolute mess, and the central mystery stayed flat and dull all the way through.

the rumors are true I fear, I did spend my wedding day reading

you do start to wonder what he thought he was doing www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Time to add girlboss to my list of progressive critiques of neoliberalism that get co-opted by antifeminists in every more bizarre ways

bumping now that Bluesky is a little less buggy!

Authors: I want to know about your experience filing for Anthropic's class action settlement. Asking for a story!

Join me for an Ask Me Anything about my story on embracing ugliness as its own virtue. On the r/iama subreddit, tomorrow at 12pm ET!! t.co/xECXCXK8Ub

There are a couple really interesting new memoirs out about the idea of embracing ugliness as its own force. One of the things they really brought home to me is how much looksmaxxing is about running from our fear of mortality. I went into it here www.vox.com/the-highligh...

I got married on Sunday. Turns out weddings are fun! Highly recommend!

Radicalized myself into becoming a fervent partisan of the casting Oscar with this one www.vox.com/culture/4822...

Back on my bullshit in re: how the 2000s messed us all up. This time, it's the Epstein edition. www.vox.com/culture/4822...

Look, I’m not angry, I just need to know who decided that the best example of bad human-written sentences would be Cormac fucking McCarthy

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...