Let’s be honest: television and film are now the same art form. In the past, divisions between the two forms have largely been about modes of production and distribution. For most of TV’s history, it was subordinate to film for two key reasons: it looked cheaper and was viewed on…

I wasn’t planning on reading as many books this year as I did last year. At the end of 2020, I had hopes that I would read far fewer books in 2021, but as they say “Man proposes and God disposes.” …

“What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era” is a brilliant idea for a book. Author Carlos Lozada, a book critic at the Washington Post, took on the heroic task of reading 150 different books that aimed to explain the Trump era to its readers. And…

I can’t believe that it took me almost three years to read “The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason.” I have been a listener of Chapo Trap House since its first episode, skipping only the rare episode when they have someone on I dislike from…

“You are all a lost generation.” — Gertrude Stein I was not forced to read The Sun Also Rises in high school or college like so many people my age. This was probably for the best. I wouldn’t have really understood it. The Sun Also Rises is usually talked about…

I have long thought that Emily Nussbaum is one of the sharpest television critics working today. I deeply enjoyed her collection of critical essays and profiles I Like to Watch. I also unfollowed her on Twitter. Nussbaum and I were on opposite sides of the posting wars that dominated both…

Rarely do I deeply admire a book and then immediately offer criticism, but in this case, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz, authors of TV: (The Book) Two Experts Pick the Greatest American TV Shows of All Time, asked for it. Literally. In TV: The Book, the authors — two…

The last time I read “Love in the Time of Cholera” was in another lost season. I was twenty-three years old when I stumbled back from college to my parents’ house. It was 2009, and on the drive from the University of Pittsburgh back to Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, a small town…

Bernie Sanders changed my life. My story begins in the hospital. In 2016, I was working as a production assistant on an NBC medical drama when I went to the emergency room. No, the irony is not lost on me. …