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Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

Christine Ma-Kellams on What She’s Learned From the Small Screen

By Christine Ma-Kellams | April 17, 2024

Always Rooting for the Antihero: How Three TV Shows Have Defined 21st-Century America

Always Rooting for the Antihero: How Three TV Shows Have Defined 21st-Century America

Michiko Kakutani on Our Love-Hate Affair with Outsiders and Outlaws

By Michiko Kakutani | February 20, 2024

Against the Cynicism Cycle: Why TV Could Do with Less Moral Grayness

Against the Cynicism Cycle: Why TV Could Do with Less Moral Grayness

Noah Ciubotaru Wonders if We’ve Given Antihero Stories Too Much Credit

By Noah Ciubotaru | June 23, 2023

Moonstruck Made Marie-Helene Bertino Proud to Be Italian-American">Why <emMoonstruck Made Marie-Helene Bertino Proud to Be Italian-American">

Moonstruck Made Marie-Helene Bertino Proud to Be Italian-American">Why Moonstruck Made Marie-Helene Bertino Proud to Be Italian-American

Open Form ">In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on Open Form

By Open Form | March 17, 2022

Why Ted Flanagan Wants His Readers to Be a Little Frustrated (At First)

Why Ted Flanagan Wants His Readers to Be a Little Frustrated (At First)

I'm a Writer But  ">In Conversation with Alex Higley and Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | December 7, 2021

Elephant">The Ambiguity of a School Shooting: On Gus Van Sant’s <emElephant">

Elephant">The Ambiguity of a School Shooting: On Gus Van Sant’s Elephant

Katya Tylevich Goes Behind the Scenes of a Post-Columbine “Artistic Investigation”

By Katya Tylevich | November 16, 2021

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How Tony Soprano Inaugurated a New (and Raw) Version of Masculinity

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Controversial indie screenwriter Christopher Moltisanti throws support behind Biden.

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Celebrate Marcel Proust's birthday by baking these

Celebrate Marcel Proust's birthday by baking these "very gay" madeleines.

By Dan Sheehan | July 10, 2020

My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

Elizabeth Bales Frank on the Pleasures and Perils of Introducing Attorneys to Poetry

By Elizabeth Bales Frank | July 23, 2019

Daniel Riley on Skyjackings, Joan Didion, and 1970s California

Daniel Riley on Skyjackings, Joan Didion, and 1970s California

Fly Me Author">In Conversation with the GQ Editor and Fly Me Author

By Dan Sheehan | June 8, 2017

You're Either Born an Artist Or You're Not

You're Either Born an Artist Or You're Not

The Son, Hollywood, and his long path to the page">Philipp Meyer on The Son, Hollywood, and his long path to the page

By Emily Temple | April 7, 2017

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

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On the Political Implications of TV's New Self-Consciousness

By Emily Harnett | December 15, 2016

The Rise of the Literary Binge-Read

The Rise of the Literary Binge-Read

How 21st-Century Culture and Technology Changed Highbrow Fiction

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