Don’t Just Replace Chavez—Rethink Monuments
It’s time for tributes to leave the great-man theory of history behind.
Culture
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
The Most Important Thing Dave Chappelle Ever Did Was Walk Away
On fearlessness, the limitations of any one narrative, and what a history of Black comedy can and can’t show
Why Can’t Euphoria Grow Up?
On the teen drama’s third season, adulthood brings only more misery.
Hollywood’s Star Power Is Shifting
Auteur filmmakers have become as much of a selling point as the actors they work with.
Hollywood Isn’t Directly Attacking Trump. It’s Doing Something More Interesting.
Less “what we need right now” and more “what it feels like to be alive.”
Why on Earth Did Maggie Gyllenhaal Make This Movie?
The Bride! is an incomprehensible genre mash-up.
What America’s Next Top Model Was Really Selling
The long-running reality series taught Millennials that beauty is work. We’re still recovering.
The McDonald’s CEO’s Big Burger-Eating Mistake
If you’re going to eat on the internet, you’d better do it a certain way.
A Novel About a Secret No One Wants to Know
The wildly popular Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth returns to a dark past.
The Sickening Fairy Tale of Yasmin Hanani
Industry is making a point about how power works in a world of interconnected crime.
Connor Storrie Knew What SNL Viewers Wanted to See
An actor known for baring it all on-screen transformed his body into a prop.
French 75
A poem
What $1 Million of Anti-Racist Leadership Training Buys You
The president of Wesleyan University objected to a recent Atlantic article—but didn’t criticize it on the merits.