Culture

From a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq

Game of Thrones’s climax presents a problem for America’s prestige publications

Non-Fiction reviewed

Marketers hyped millennials up so that advertisers could sell us products

Of course he was

The service’s algorithms have shaped a generation of listeners who are defined by attention deficit disorder and a fear of complexity and difficulty

Paradise Lost in Washington, DC

A Fortunate Man reviewed

Much ado about Shakespeare in Indian cinema

Skip the political cold-open every week

Ruining Game of Thrones is in the global interest for Godfrey

Critics who only write about shallow subjects will only produce shallow writing

The Get Out director snuffs out the magic of The Twilight Zone

Girls of the Sun reviewed

His author wanted something more than an action hero

Amazing Grace reviewed

The strangest Melania and Ivanka Trump illustrations the internet has to offer

When it comes to sport, soccer is the world’s game, and the US is playing catch-up

The Brink reviewed

When I was a young boy, I socialized plenty and spent very little time inside the house

Life had cast the half-pint hedonist for the circus, but he had family money as well as talent

The Smollett story is so perfectly Wolfeian I wouldn’t be all that surprised if somebody told me it was his last unfinished book

The Beach Bum and The Mustang reviewed

Was he guilty? Or just a jackass? 

When a man throws things at his staff, it’s assault. When a woman does it, it’s a punchline