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Pop culture weekend (Sept. 15): General Mills Cereal Monsters, ranked
How will the new cereal monster, Carmella Creeper, fare?
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pop culture weekend
Pop culture weekend (Sept. 8): Foundation and the rise of the "episodic" streaming show
Serialized shows can seem more episodic using this one weird trick.
emily rogers
How to make lemonade
My recipe blogging cis self thinks about motherhood and Stephen Sondheim
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Pop culture weekend (Sept. 1): On vacation
What are you reading, watching, listening to, or staring at blankly?
romance novels
Class and the modern romance novel
Romance as a genre can't escape the long shadow of that hot rich guy Mr. Darcy. Should it?
pop culture weekend
Pop culture weekend (Aug. 25): The millennial Big Chill (doesn't exist)
Is it possible to define a generation's experiences anymore? Was it ever?
barbie
What we discourse about when we discourse about Barbenheimer
The discourses around Barbie and Oppenheimer have followed very similar patterns.
pop culture weekend
Pop culture weekend (Aug. 18): I can't watch bad things happen to fictional kids anymore.
I became a parent, and you won't believe what happened next! (Spoilers: I found watching scenes of children dying or being endangered almost completely unbearable.)
pop culture weekend
Pop culture weekend (Aug. 11): Country music and hierarchies
Just how conservative is country music anyway?
criticism
You are not smarter than the art you critique
Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.