Culture

Death of a Hacktivist

A new documentary on Aaron Swartz.

Patricia Aufderheide

Dimwits and the Dark Ages

Pervasive sexual violence has become a black eye for HBO's popular Game of Thrones series.

Katherine Don

Mansplaining, Explained

How Rebecca Solnit articulated a millennia-old phenomenon.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

The Ambiguities of Care

As they grow older, women may find themselves once again enlisted as unpaid caretakers.

Jane Miller

Is Harmon’s ‘Community’ Really Back in Harmony?

The season that followed creator Dan Harmon's return was more about him than about anything else.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

A Cubicle of One’s Own

Nikil Saval's new book, Cubed, shows us the future of the workplace.

Chris Lehmann

Nymphomaniac: Lars Von Trier’s Masturbatory Fantasy

The two-part film feels like the work of teenage boy.

Michael Atkinson

The Minor Leagues’ Major Malfunction

Curt Flood's landmark antitrust suit transformed the Major League, but the Minor League is still bound by archaic rules.

Chris Lehmann

‘Game of Thrones’ Could Have Been Much Worse

HBO's hit series is making the best of its heavy-handed source material.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Judges Blind To Justice

Matt Taibbi's new book, The Divide, illuminates the corruption in our courtrooms.

Moe Tkacik

Clever Girls

'Men or books?' These could be mutually exclusive choices for young women in 1950s Europe, as two new novels show.

Jane Miller

For Cambodian Documentarians, a Conundrum

How do you show the past when the Khmer Rouge torched all traces?

Michael Atkinson

The New York Lottery, Now Kid-Friendly?

A new ad blitz makes deceptive claims.

Matthew Vaz

The Perils of Reading While Female

Alienated by sexism in 'Great Books' (cough, Kerouac), some women create a secret canon.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

How Will We Remember the First World War?

The centenary of the Great War has sparked some ugly debates in the U.K.

Jane Miller

Let the Witness Speak

In Claude Lanzmann's new Holocaust documentary The Last of the Unjust, the line between right and wrong blurs.

Michael Atkinson

Faux Vox Populi

Will Obama's promises to fix inequality turn out to be as hollow as Clinton's were?

Chris Lehmann

Design And Punishment

Should architects draft more humane prisons?

Charlotte Silver