BOOKS Noel Parmentel, the Man Joan Didion Left Behind by Chavez 02/25/2025 02/25/2025 Two years ago, in her Atlantic cover story “Chasing Joan Didion,” Caitlin Flanagan claimed that, … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
COMEDY Why Trump Was on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant Podcast by Chavez 02/25/2025 02/25/2025 On October 9, just days after Kamala Harris’s media blitz — which included appearances on … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MOVIES How Big of a Bite Was Venom: The Last Dance’s Opening Weekend? by Chavez 02/25/2025 02/25/2025 What kind of poison is invading the box office this weekend? It’s Venom 3, a.k.a. … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
BOOKS Novelist Flynn Berry Grocery Shops for Her Characters by Chavez 02/23/2025 02/23/2025 For her new novel, Trust Her, the author Flynn Berry undertook an exercise she’s performed … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
MOVIES Emilia Pérez States Its Case Right Away by Chavez 02/23/2025 02/23/2025 Jacques Audiard’s genre-melding noir musical, Emilia Pérez, opens with a plea. Zoe Saldaña as Rita, … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
BOOKS Why Star Wars’s The Acolyte Is Set an Even Longer Time Ago by Chavez 02/23/2025 02/23/2025 We all know the Skywalker saga. We’ve watched the journeys of Luke, Leia, and Han, … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
COMEDY Charli XCX Is Doing More Than Just Music on Benito Skinner’s Overcompensating by Chavez 02/22/2025 02/22/2025 Comedian Benny Drama, real name Benito Skinner, is exchanging his Halloween bridal party for a … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
THEATER So You Saw That Creepy Eddie Redmayne Cabaret Performance by Chavez 02/22/2025 02/22/2025 It’s something every parent wants to shield their children from, something we all fear despite … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
THEATER Is the Safety Not Guaranteed Musical What You Wish For? by Chavez 02/22/2025 02/22/2025 The elder-millennial faves are on the musical march: Sufjan Stevens and Will Butler have visited … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
BOOKS Garth Greenwell’s Grand Romance by Chavez 02/22/2025 02/22/2025 On a muggy July afternoon in Iowa City, I went grocery shopping with the writer … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail