Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Four
It's Eschaton time!! (Oh, and also David Foster Wallace predicts Trump.)
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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.
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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)
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Episodes Monday Rundown August 3–9 2026
This week: Sterling Point, Superman, and the state of the evangelical church in America.
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The Vampire Lestat really could have used a frame narrative
The show's chaotic structure was fascinating, but would it have killed someone to just interview that damn vampire??
Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Two
It's week two of our summer book club, and we're talking BODIES! Specifically, how having them sucks.
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The Episodes late-summer playlist
Check out our list of songs that remind us of this lovely, melancholy time of year!
hadestown
Episodes Monday Rundown July 27–August 2 2026
This week: Interview with the Vampire, another take on The Odyssey, and the Hadestown pro shot!
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The three deaths of Charli xcx's Music, Fashion, Film
Brat Summer isn't coming back, and that's okay.
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Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week One
In our first-ever book club, Emily and Lily get into what makes the first section of David Foster Wallace's most famous novel enthralling and infuriating.
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On making a deal with Hannibal Lecter in suburban Minnesota
Hannibal's Abigail Hobbs is a razor-sharp portrait of an abused child, tucked into a mesmerizing horror series.
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Episodes Monday Rundown July 20–26 2026
This week: Moana, the new Charli XCX, and that damn Avengers trailer.
the odyssey
The City Burners
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey reimagines one of our oldest stories for a world on the brink of ending.
Nevermoor
Nevermoor is the best middle-grade magic school series to read right now
Jessica Townsend's ongoing tale of a super special girl and her super special friends beats the pants off you-know-who