Callie Hitchcock watches the 2017 Reese Witherspoon rom-com more times than is advisable.
Arts & Culture
(Quarantined in) a Room of One’s Own
V.M. Braganza talks about curating women writers at a distance and the stakes of Virginia Woolf’s room today.
Collective Memory and Intergenerational Trauma in Finding Sally
Hannah Borenstein reviews the CBC documentary by director Tamara Mariam Dawit.
Bracing For Impact: Music, Millennials, and What Comes After COVID-19
Dan DiPiero talks about music nostalgia during the pandemic and how it shapes his attitudes and politics.
Come Together: Queer Art in a Time of Social Distancing
Jonathan Alexander discusses how to view Xavier Schipani and Paul Mpagi Sepuya's exhibitions from behind a screen and have them still mean something.
Subversive Decoration: Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence at the Hammer Museum
Alexandre Saden gives a retrospective walk-through of the Lari Pittman exhibition at the Hammer Museum earlier this year.
On Death and the Finale of Star Trek: Picard
T. S. Mendola discusses the end of "Star Trek: Picard" and what it means to be human — or not.
On “Julie Mehretu” at LACMA
Nicholas Andes takes a spin through the Julie Mehretu retrospective at LACMA.
Los Angeles Plays Itself as Itself
Perwana Nazif recaps the Frieze Los Angeles fair.
“We wear the mask”: Todd Phillips’ Joker and Paul Laurence Dunbar
Chloé Valdary finds resonances of Paul Laurence Dunbar's famous words on race in America in Todd Phillips' "Joker."