Culture

Ecce Homo Sorkinia

The Newsroom is back, and it's as condescending (and, yes, sexist) as ever.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Gaga for Google

The Internship: a study in the psychology of mass digital conformity.

Chris Lehmann

Psychonesia

Mass murderers reenact their crimes for fun in Joshua Oppenheimer's new documentary, The Act of Killing.

Michael Atkinson

Extra Time

What to do with those 'golden years' after 80?

Jane Miller

Hate Bait

The new Andrew Breitbart doc: for the perversely fascinated only.

Chris Faraone

Geoengineers Gone Wild

Techno-entrepreneurs are funding sci-fi solutions to global warming.

Anthony Mangini

In Defense of Dessert: The Case Against Austerity

Why cutting down doesn't pay off.

Chris Lehmann

Really Bright Ideas

Britain's coalition government inflicts creative 'reforms' upon its people.

Jane Miller

Tel Aviv Rorschach

The Attack, a tasteful thriller about a Palestinian suicide bombing, will please both sides of the divide. And that's its problem.

Michael Atkinson

No Punches Pulled

A brilliant new graphic novel takes a nostalgia-free trip to the 1930s.

Paul Buhle

We Need Bats

Don't discount their 'keystone role' in our ecosystem.

Dawn Starin

The Violently Killed Femmes

From Hemlock Grove to Hannibal, TV just can't get enough of dead teenage girls.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Bring on the Trash

Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby gets the tackiness right, but the flappers wrong.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Powerball Trip

How a proposal for a socially conscious lottery panicked corporations and birthed the 9-figure jackpot.

Matthew Vaz

Leaning In While Black

Can Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's manifesto speak to women of color?

Tamara Winfrey Harris

Upstream Color Reinvents Cinema

We've seen the future of film, and it's incomprehensible.

Michael Atkinson

Will the Real Betty Draper Please Stand Up?

In Mad Men's new season, we need the slap-in-the-face Betty back.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Suicide by Appointment

A soldier's story of living precariously with PTSD. And of a government unable to help him.

Richard Baker