Editor’s Picks Archives

iZombie explores the dangers of dehumanization as Liz learns to humanize others by consuming their brains.

For Kevin Porter of Gilmore Guys, hospitality looked like a podcast with a posture of welcome and inclusion.

Part of OK Computer’s genius is that it captures the ways in which our technology detaches us.

There’s a long history that’s given us the expectation that our politics should entertain us.

If Voyager encounters alien life, what will the spacecraft and the record it carries tell about the human race?

We crave heroes like Wonder Woman who give undeserved mercy to those who deserve destruction.

The songs of Daniel Tiger have become little liturgies that shape my daughter’s days.

Kendrick’s latest album offers less resolution for his fans. And that’s okay.

In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, we see the consequences of denying truth.

Perhaps the healthiest way to cope at this point is to remember Chris Cornell’s place in our lives.

The Man Who Was Thursday equips us to endure our “dissolving age” by reminding us that there is a larger plan set in motion ages ago by the author of our existence.

The contemporary stereotype of tradition — which Moana so beautifully subverts — is that it’s static and deadening.

It is possible to be a fan of someone’s work without insisting that everyone else feel the same way.

Your Name earnestly embraces a sense of longing as something natural to the human existence.

Dorothy Parker was far removed from my Christian comfort zone but her work helped me to find a voice of my own.

S-Town bears out the shared fate of body and place.