Readings

Searching for the ease that comes with unspeakable wealth, from counterfeit markets in Bangkok to money at the bottom of a barrel.

The Iranian documentarian on gaining trust, working with censors and the importance of independent filmmaking. 

Danny Boyle's film presented a stylish rendering of a very '90s binary: counter-culture cool, or mainstream-endorsed responsible living?

Readers who embrace futuristic narratives about artificial intelligences or evolved dolphins may balk at those about magicians or goblins, but creators are increasingly bridging the genre gap.

Having phone sex in a bush behind a library on the fourth of July stopped me from converting to Mormonism.

The photos on the author and New Yorker critic's Instagram account can seem bouncily staged, as if he’d just held up his phone and made a suggestion, or a consolation, or a dig.

The city became the go-to for a very specific type of crime movie, but Spotlight is the first film to truly capture it since Good Will Hunting. 

If the “like” remains the basic unit of reaction on social media—and therefore, of online life—then the most powerful force is indifference.

Feminist film writing has historically struggled with a problem of reach limited by privilege. Can online journals solve the access issue without bowing to popular influence?