It's The Leftovers' afterlife. We're just living in it.

Over a decade after its debut, HBO's cult series about an ambiguous apocalypse only grows more prescient.

Episodes Monday Rundown August 17–23 2026

This week: Furious, further Camp Miasma thoughts, and, most importantly, TRAINS.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, or learning to love your own horniness

Jane Schoenbrun's new film is about a very common trans experience. And a very common human experience too.

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Four

It's Eschaton time!! (Oh, and also David Foster Wallace predicts Trump.)

We Call It Love: A Transracial Adoptee Celebrates Hedwig and the Angry Inch at 25

"Hedwig wasn't a window into another world; it was a portal back to myself."

Episodes Monday Rundown August 10–16 2026

This week: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Spider-Man, and the Winnie-the-Pooh hot takes you've been waiting for.

August mailbag! (preview)

A little preview of this month's mailbag!

August mailbag!

This month: the works of John Crowley, our personal AI policies, and movies that could have used a sex scene.

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Three

In which the book begins to find... a plot??

The thing Transparent was smartest about was never trans identities

The series remains one of the best in TV history at depicting the way we remember and forget our pasts.

The thing Transparent was smartest about was never trans identities (preview)

A preview of this week's premium Wednesday newsletter!

Episodes Monday Rundown August 3–9 2026

This week: Sterling Point, Superman, and the state of the evangelical church in America.