Historical Fiction’s Shipwrecks, Magical Objects, and the Marginalized
Historical fiction as diverse as Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account and teen TV show Outer Banks bring real stories of shipwrecks, magical objects, and the marginalized to life.
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Historical fiction as diverse as Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account and teen TV show Outer Banks bring real stories of shipwrecks, magical objects, and the marginalized to life.
Fusing mystery with mysticism, Navajo Nation psychological thriller Dark Winds conjures memory and monsters at Monument Valley.
‘The Penguin’ compels us to interrogate our morality: do we treat others in our lives only as means to an end?
Workplace drama Severance Season 2 enhances performance by moving sideways from work ethics to reach the complicated hearts of its protagonists.
Beyoncé may have broken her curse with fun performances, but the bright Grammy ceremony was undercut by self-aggrandizing acts that fell flat by the end.
The dark comedy Patriot illuminates how neoliberalism makes choices for us disguisedly, using entrepreneurial agency as a fig leaf to obscure manipulation.
Many of Donald Trump’s 2025 cabinet picks came from Fox News. Would the nation be better served if he binged Looney Tunes instead?
The good, the bad, and the ugly dance to Slow Horses‘ strange game, which reminds viewers that solidarity is essential to fighting oppression.
These eight TV episodes illustrate what happened when the 1950s met the 1960s via LSD TV, leading to moments of confusion and irony, often with comical results.
As polarization impacts the cultural landscape, rom-coms like Ted Lasso show how we can work through our differences and disagreements to everyone’s satisfaction.
For this Halloween, we invite you to join us in revisiting ten classic, creepy Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes. First, turn off the lights.
Individualism was not the dominant force on the American frontier, as most Westerns would have you believe. Deadwood explores the era’s cooperation and moral optimism.