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- Shrill normalizes fat people, and that’s a good thing (January 24, 2020)
- She’s a woman. She’s a superhero. Get over it. (December 13, 2019)
- The therapeutic rise of celebrity thirst culture (November 1, 2019)
- Why female rage won’t deliver a female president (May 30, 2019)
- True Detective season 3 paints a refreshingly real portrait of masculinity (January 14, 2019)
- The joy of having a bare face: how ditching makeup set me free (November 28, 2018)
- The survivor’s rage (October 1, 2018)
- Trump haters will love Rick Wilson’s scathing new book, Everything Trump Touches Dies (August 7, 2018)
- I see myself in Dietland (June 10, 2018)
- Why everyone hates Solo (May 22, 2018)
- Being a middle-aged woman is a super power, and Hollywood is finally catching on (March 20, 2018)
- Why our true crime obsession is bad for society (January 31, 2018)
- The decline of Portlandia (January 18, 2018)
- Bad Santa is the greatest holiday movie of all time (December 19, 2017)
- The genius of Riverdale and the teenage girls who love it (December 12, 2017)
- Why today’s TV needs more old-fashioned good guys (November 29, 2017)
- The Walking Dead’s explosive season 8 premiere (October 22, 2017)
- The surprisingly fascinating politics of The Walking Dead (October 20, 2017)
- How today’s female politicians became modern heroines (September 19, 2017)
- How the Twin Peaks revival weaponized our longing for homecoming (September 1, 2017)
- The rise of the political she-ro (July 13, 2017)
- The Leftovers comes to a cathartic, compassionate close (June 4, 2017)
- The Leftovers episode 7 recap: Kevin Garvey finally finds meaning (May 28, 2017)
- Twin Peaks is back. And it’s great. (May 22, 2017)
- The Leftovers just reminded us all that it is a staggeringly sad show (May 21, 2017)
- Why America desperately needs the Twin Peaks revival right now (May 19, 2017)
- The Leftovers episode 5 recap: What happens when Matt meets God (May 14, 2017)
- The Leftovers recap: ‘G’Day Melbourne’ (May 7, 2017)
- The Leftovers recap: The wrong Kevin (April 30, 2017)
- The beautiful impenetrability of The Leftovers (April 23, 2017)
- How Girls helped me grow up (April 17, 2017)
- I don’t own a smartphone — and I don’t want one (February 22, 2017)
- In defense of being unapologetically fat (January 26, 2017)
- I Lost My Beloved Dog. Can I Ever Love Again? (November 22, 2019)
- Women’s Anger Was Supposed To Be A Reckoning? Why Isn’t It? (June 25, 2019)
- “Shrill” Demonstrates the Audacity of Self-Acceptance (March 12, 2019)
- Are TV’s Strongest Women Still Heroes, or Just Assholes? (December 10, 2018)
- Uma, You’re Still My Hero (February 5, 2018)
- Our Waking Nightmare Has Made “American Horror Story” Great Again (November 14, 2017)
- Why Are We So Critical of Female Superheroes? (June 7, 2017)
- Will Trumpism End the Republican Party? (May 10, 2017)
- Is Trump Just Another Toxic Cult Leader? (February 28, 2017)
- When They Go Low, We’re Gonna Have to Go Low, Too (January 11, 2017)
- I Swore I’d Never Buy a Gun. And Then Trump Got Elected (December 6, 2016)
- How the Hell Did We End Up With a Troll in Chief? (November 28, 2016)
- We Don’t Want a Mother-in-Chief, Louis C.K. We Want a President (November 4, 2016)
- Is There a Silver Lining to Trump’s Vile Comments About Women? (October 9, 2016)
- How Did Fake Writer JT LeRoy Draw Real Devotees? (September 28, 2016)
- What Hath Phyllis Schlafly Wrought? (September 8, 2016)
- RNC 2016 Is the Scariest Dystopic Reality Show We’ve Ever Watched (July 21, 2016)
- “The Americans’” Martha Hanson Is More Than Just a Sad Sack (April 26, 2016)
- When the Author You Love Writes a Novel You Don’t (November 9, 2015)
- Can I Turn My Feminism Off When My Shows Are On? (September 16, 2015)
- The Unsung Badassery of Sansa Stark (June 15, 2015)
- “The Americans” Is the Love Story I’ve Been Waiting For (April 7, 2015)
- “Fifty Shades” Whips Female Desire Out of the Picture (February 17, 2015)
- Katniss Everdeen Is More Than Just Your Everyday Warrior (November 17, 2014)
- If You Think Your Mom’s Awful… (November 4, 2014)
- We Don’t Need a Reason to Be Bad (October 16, 2014)
- Is Melissa McCarthy a Big Sellout? (July 9, 2014)
- Shrill‘s second season traces the exquisite joy and pain of growing up (January 10, 2020)
- Amazon’s Hanna packs a far weaker punch than its source material (March 29, 2019)
- In its final episode, Escape at Dannemora proves that Hell really is other people (December 30, 2018)
- In a brutish hour of TV, Escape At Dannemora takes us back to the beginning (December 23, 2018)
- Escape at Dannemora finally shows us the escape at Dannemora (December 16, 2018)
- Escape at Dannemora paints a brutal, ugly portrait of a marriage (December 9, 2018)
- Escape at Dannemora shows us its characters’ inner strengths (and a very swole Paul Dano) (December 2, 2018)
- Escape at Dannemora shows us the downsides of desire (November 25, 2018)
- In a compelling “Chapter One,” Escape at Dannemora shows that there’s more than one way to be imprisoned (November 18, 2018)
- Losing Rick Grimes is the best thing that can happen to The Walking Dead (November 3, 2018)
- In one of its better episodes, The Walking Dead makes a case for a reckoning (October 21, 2018)
- The Walking Dead shows that it can be a smart, nuanced series (when it wants to be) (October 14, 2018)
- In a breathtaking finale, Sharp Objects takes us to the underworld and back again (August 26, 2018)
- In a beautiful, bruising episode, Sharp Objects shows us the pain of being extraordinary (August 19, 2018)
- In a surprisingly tedious episode, Sharp Objects forgets what makes it such a special show (August 12, 2018)
- In “Closer,” Sharp Objects presents a not-so-grand unified theory of female pain (August 5, 2018)
- In a powerful fourth episode, Sharp Objects explores the pain of a life left to wither on the vineh (July 29, 2018)
- In an intense third episode, Sharp Objects delves into the dark power of teenage girls (July 22, 2018)
- Sharp Objects delves into the thin line between obsession and devotion (July 15, 2018)
- Sharp Objects begins with a redemption story wrapped in a murder mystery (July 8, 2018)
- The Walking Dead reminds us that its side characters are its greatest strengths (March 19, 2018)
- The Walking Dead gives us one tantalizing flash of real darkness among all the table setting (March 11, 2018)
- “Beauty
treated like a beast”: The backlash against Donald Trump’s fat shaming of
Alicia Machado shows how deep our fat phobia goes (October 4, 2016)
- “The
Night Of” finale: At least we know the cat didn’t do it (August 29, 2016)
- “The
Night Of” recap: Are we closer to discovering the truth? (August 22, 2016)
- “The
Night Of” recap: The trial of Naz begins (August
15, 2016)
- “The
Night Of” recap: When a “good boy” goes bad (August 8, 2016)
- “The
Night Of” recap: The defense gears up, the wild calls, and a slow burn erupts (August 1, 2016)
- “The
Night Of” recap: Naz goes into the belly of the beast (July 18, 2016)
- “The
Night Of” recap: Down the rabbit hole
(July 11, 2016)
- Sansa
Stark has always been a warrior: She’s been fierce all along — and it kept
her alive (June 28, 2016)
- “Game
of Thrones” recap: Explosive season finale sets the great game in motion (June 27, 2016)
- “Game
of Thrones” needs a new big bad: With Ramsay out of the way, a villainous void
must be filled (June 26, 2016)
- “Game
of Thrones” recap: The “Battle of the Bastards” may be the most intense episode
yet (June 20, 2016)
- “Game
of Thrones” recap: Say her name
(June 13, 2016)
- What’s
the deal with Daenerys? “Game of Thrones” needs to break its badass queen out
of her rut (June 12, 2016)
- “Game
of Thrones” recap: “Violence is a disease—you don’t cure it by spreading it to
more people” (June 6,
2016)
- “Game
of Thrones” recap: Is power still a shadow on the wall, or does it come from
standing in the light? (May 30, 2016)
- My
body doesn’t need a cure: Sizeism, classism and the big-business hustle of the
clean-eating industry (March 27, 2016)
- Holiday
kitsch is killing us: I’ve had enough of these pageants of enforced feeling
that leave us all empty
(December 23, 2015)
- I
wanted to go as Daenerys Targaryen or The Bride — but, apparently, badass
costumes are not for fat girls
(October 30, 2015)
- My
home on the Island of Daydreaming Girls — with Michael Fassbender, Marlon
Brando, and Tom Hardy at my side
(August 16, 2015)
- I
will wear a swimsuit one day: Manifesto of a righteous fat-ass (May 31, 2015)
- I
can’t forgive my mother
(April 12, 2015)
- I’m trying
not to hate men (December 31,
2014)
- Love at any size (August 3, 2014)
- I
learned to never ask for help
(June 7, 2014)
- Forgiving
the dad who beat me (December 31,
2013)
- I choose to be fat (July 24, 2013)
- I’m
terrified of the cicada onslaught
(May 20, 2013)
- My best relationship is
with my dog (February 23,
2013)
- Curse of my
birthing hips (December 19,
2012)
- So much for
“family values”
(October 28, 2012)
- Anything
Less Than Extraordinary: Breaking Bad
and American Ambition (August 5, 2013)
- Promises
and Threats (May 4, 2013)
- The
Great Unfathomable How (December 27, 2012)
- Review
of Love, In Theory, by EJ Levy (November
5, 2012)
- The
Best and Worst Parts of You (June 6, 2012)
- What
The Hunger Games Gave Me (March 20, 2012)
- Things
We Leave Behind (December 8, 2011)
- White
Knights and Black Flags: A Look at Masculinity in Drive (October 11, 2011)
- We
Only Said Goodbye With Words: A Tribute To Amy Winehouse (July 26,
2011)
- Confessions
of a Prude: Why I Can’t Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the SlutWalk (June 8,
2011)
- The
Mediocrity Exhibition (April 4, 2011)
- Tomorrow
is a Long Time: Zombie Politics in Post-Obama America (December
28, 2010)
- What
About Peggy Olson? (October 11, 2010)
- The
Moments Between (August 3, 2010)
- A
Driving Lesson (June 20, 2010)
- The
Heart is the Haunted Place (May 24, 2010)
