Brett Easton Ellis, as you may recall, wrote a book about how everyone is too sensitive these days and Moonlight shouldn't have won the Oscar. I quoted heavily from Andrea Long Chu's magnificently nasty review, which pointedly skewered not only Ellis's arguments, such as they...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
The far side of the Moon, photographed on April 7th from the Israeli space probe Beresheet (Genesis). If all goes to plan, Beresheet will touch down in the Sea of.
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction constructs its social, political, and economic futures. Our latest (and confusingly titled) entry looks at.
It's been a week since Us, Jordan Peele's brilliant, messy follow-up to Get Out, opened in theaters, and I think it's time for the LGM commentariat to get their thinking caps on about it. Us is the sort of film that is almost as much...
The world is, alas, full of rich, middle aged white men who are convinced that the fact that someone, somewhere, once criticized them or implied that they don't possess an.
[This post has been reprinted from my blog. It contains spoilers for all of Captain Marvel.] There isn't really that much to say about Captain Marvel in itself. As a.
It occurs to me that I have not introduced the good people of LGM to Genevieve Valentine's red carpet write-ups. My only possible excuse for such an oversight...
[This post has been reprinted from my blog.] The Good Place is.
Byron Tau's supremely unfortunate tweet, responding to the footage of a student at Covington Catholic High School jeering and mocking Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder, with cries of "Build the.
I have something of a love-hate relationship with reading currently. It used to be that my reading was completely unmoored from the current state of the publishing industry. I read books—even new ones by authors I liked—years after their publication. This was especially true when...
As the year winds to its close and TV critics have tried to sum it up, a narrative has emerged. 2018 was the year when TV (by which I mean.
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction constructs its social and political futures. For our last column of 2018, our topic is.