[This post has been reprinted from my blog. It contains spoilers for all of Captain Marvel.] There isn't really that much to say about Captain Marvel in itself. As a movie, it is a pleasant but unremarkable way to spend two hours. Brie Larson is...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
It occurs to me that I have not introduced the good people of.
[This post has been reprinted from my blog.] The Good Place is.
Byron Tau's supremely unfortunate tweet, responding to the footage of a student at Covington Catholic High School jeering and mocking Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder, with cries of "Build the Wall!" by asking, essentially, "who among us wasn't really racist as a teenager?", has met...
I have something of a love-hate relationship with reading currently. It used to be that my reading was completely unmoored from the current state of the publishing industry. I read.
As the year winds to its close and TV critics have tried to sum it up, a narrative has emerged. 2018 was the year when TV (by which I mean.
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction constructs its social and political futures. For our last column of 2018, our topic is Aminder Dhaliwal's webcomic Woman World, recently collected in a printed volume. We're going to do...
This is kind of a weird thing to say, since I've watched every Spider-Man movie made in the last sixteen years, but I don't consider myself a huge fan of.
Tomorrow evening is the first night of Hanukkah, which in.
This thread has been getting some attention on twitter, so I thought I'd repost it here. It's something I've been thinking about a lot, as the conversation about "good" and "bad", "legal" and "illegal" immigrants has grown increasingly inane. Wow. We’re really doing this? OK...
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction imagines the political and social organization of its future societies. This time, our topic is.
I have a review at Strange Horizons in which I try to sum up my deeply conflicted reaction to Netflix's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Netflix’s.