Elden Ring Loves MomsShadow of the Erdtree treats motherhood like a classical power, like bloodlust in the Colosseum.
ByAshley Bardhan
chapters
‘Everything on That Island Wanted to Kill You’The very first crew of Survivor slept tent-less on a beach covered in rats and snakes because they smelled a hit TV show. And then it got worse.
‘It’s Just a Funny Thing to Do’Pod Save America host Jon Lovett doesn’t seem particularly comfortable with being a public figure. He went on Survivor anyway.
Against ‘Women’s Writing’Rachel Cusk’s gender fundamentalism fully surfaces in her latest novel, Parade.
ByAndrea Long Chu
movie review
Dakota Johnson Is Actually Great in DaddioSean Penn is better than he’s been in years in Christy Hall’s old-fashioned strangers-in-a-cab drama. But Johnson nearly acts him off the screen.
ByBilge Ebiri
backstories
Faust Goes to FidiThe producers of Sleep No More are back with the whirlwind immersive-theater project Life and Trust.
The Longform Episodes We Won’t ForgetWith the long-running journalism podcast coming to an end, we asked media people to tell us the episodes they can’t get out of their heads.