Nov
17
Episodes: The Messengers
I have a map of the United States that refers to every river, every city, every state, by what it
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Emily St. James
Emily St. James is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Vox, The A.V. Club, and the New York Times. She is the co-creator of the podcast Arden and a writer on the TV series Yellowjackets.
Nov
15
Episodes: Normal
The night after Donald Trump won the election, surprising essentially everyone who was supposed to know how these things worked,
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Nov
01
Episodes: Focus block
I have writer's block.
This is not going to sound right to you if you look at, say,
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Oct
22
Episodes: Empires of the air, OR Your big friend in the Midwest
Immediately after finishing Kelly Reichardt's achingly melancholy new film Certain Women, which tells the stories of three different
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Oct
21
Episodes: Five crimes that should become American Crime Stories
With the rumor that the third season of American Crime Story will focus on the murder of Gianni Versace taking
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Oct
18
Episodes: In praise of Testament, the grimmest post-apocalyptic movie ever made
I love stories about the aftermath of the apocalypse. I especially love stories about the aftermath of nuclear war. There&
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Oct
15
Episodes: Members of the Simpson family, ranked (in terms of how well they can carry stories)
I don't know if you heard, but this weekend sees the debut of the 600th episode of The
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Oct
13
Episodes: Green Acres and the birth of the surreal sitcom
There are a lot of TV shows I love that people reflexively write off, but none gets written off as
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Oct
11
Episodes: I voted for George W. Bush
A couple of weeks ago, a friend was arguing with me, saying she didn't understand how someone could
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Oct
08
Episodes: The locker room
When I was in the fifth grade, I started having to use the locker room with guys several times my
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