November mailbag!
This month: Food! So many questions about food! Also, the Criterion Closet, stage plays, and Pluribus.
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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.)