Video essayist Thomas Flight dives deep into why character actors are the secret ingredient that makes films feel alive. His ...

There’s a classic example of narrative magazine writing in Rachel Aviv’s harrowing piece on a woman’s struggle to stop taking prescription psychiatric drugs. Jonathan Franzen’s pessimistic ...

The global warming that terrifies the good rule-heeding burghers of today is real enough. However, it has almost literally nothing to do with most phenomena attributed to it.

What is a ‘white saviour’? Elements of a white saviour narrative are pervasive in Villeneuve’s first Dune film (2021), which hints at – but doesn’t commit to – subverting this narrative.

But narrative, as literature and drama scholar Brian Boyd has written, “allows us [to go] beyond the limits of our lives” to benefit from the experience of others, whether real or imagined.