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The Goods

Where teen influencers go to become actors

By Rebecca Jennings

The intricate literary layers of Drive My Car

By Alissa Wilkinson

Recode

Can TV take down the cult of the tech founder?

By Rani Molla

The Goods

The best $4.99 I ever spent: A six-pack after my father’s funeral

By Akina Chargualaf

What we can learn from Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s TV presidency

By Kelsey Piper

Have we ceased to understand the world?

By Constance Grady March 11

She was the Agatha Christie of romance novels. You’ve probably never heard of her.

By Aja Romano March 11

Morality in art, as considered by a fictional 50-something martini-drinking hostage taker

By Constance Grady March 9

The video essay boom

By Terry Nguyen March 9

The Batman’s moral universe gets what Todd Phillips’ Joker misses

By Alissa Wilkinson March 7

Love Is Blind gave up on a happily ever after

By Alex Abad-Santos March 4

When We Cease to Understand the World asks what it means to be human

By Constance Grady March 4

The Batman brings the caped crusader back to his detective roots

By Alex Abad-Santos March 3

Kirsten Dunst, great American wanter

By Constance Grady March 3

Volodymyr Zelenskyy brings a performer’s skill to wartime politics

By Emily St. James March 2

The Oscars can’t quite decide if they’re about America or the whole world

By Alissa Wilkinson March 2

Bipolar disorder is complicated. So is how we talk about Ye.

By Kiana Fitzgerald March 1

74 Updates

Join the Vox Book Club!

By Constance Grady November 16, 2021

Inventing Anna’s lazy girlboss revenge fantasy

By Alex Abad-Santos February 28

How Kibbe body types became an internet obsession

By Terry Nguyen February 28

One Good Thing: Music to dance to as a hurricane bears down

By Emily St. James February 28

Your 9 biggest questions about the 2022 Oscars, answered

By Alissa Wilkinson February 26

Reckoning with the war meme in wartime

By Aja Romano February 25

Former evangelicals are putting the American church under a microscope in pop culture

By Emily St. James February 25

How do you solve a problem like Joe Rogan?

By Aja Romano February 23

The chaotic, irreplaceable Wendy Williams

By Melinda Fakuade February 22

Why the Oscars are so weird about real people roles

By Alissa Wilkinson February 22

One Good Thing: Love & Basketball is proof that sports can be sexy

By Jayson Buford February 21

How the new banned books panic fits into America’s history of school censorship

By Constance Grady February 17

When celebrity nudes were everywhere

By Constance Grady February 16

The shocking decision to allow Kamila Valieva to skate at the Olympics, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos February 15

The real story of “Don’t Look Up”

By Sean Illing February 15

The winner of this year’s Super Bowl: Money

By Terry Nguyen February 14

Sam and Diane were TV’s first big romance — and maybe still its best

By Emily St. James February 14

Why electric vehicles are so hot in the 2022 Super Bowl ads

By Rebecca Leber February 13

The best $540 we ever spent: An indoor garden that made us feel connected

By Maryellen Groot February 13

One Good Thing: The Left Hand of Darkness showed us that the greatest romances in life can be friendships

By Muizz Akhtar February 13

Euphoria changes the narrative around Blackness and addiction

By Nylah Burton February 12

Hades tells a love story through song and side quest

By Neel Dhanesha February 12

Kamila Valieva failed her drug test. Blame her coaches.

By Alex Abad-Santos February 11

The NFL had the Brian Flores lawsuit coming

By Jamil Smith February 11

In The Sentence, Louise Erdrich asks what we owe the dead

By Constance Grady February 11

A crop of new documentaries refuses to erase the past

By Alissa Wilkinson February 11

One Good Thing: The celebrity art couple who turned love into performance

By Terry Nguyen February 11

Nathan Chen was always America’s best shot at figure skating gold

By Terry Nguyen February 10