The Verdict
- Opinion
- Music
Why the world chose the wrong NSYNC solo star
While Justin Timberlake played it safe with R&B, JC Chasez’s Schizophrenic was a fearless, genre-bending masterpiece that was simply too weird for 2004.
- Tom W. Clarke
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- Opinion
- Fashion
The gender-fluid revolution is over – and Timothée Chalamet just surrendered
From icons to insurance salesman, the red carpet has gone MAGA.
- Damien Woolnough
Ethan Hawke will lose at the Oscars. But he will always win our hearts
Any of the best actor nominees has a chance of winning on Monday. Except Ethan Hawke.
- Robert Moran
Stop counting your books and start actually reading them, you heathens
The raw number of books a person reads doesn’t tell you much about their general level of intelligence.
- David Free
Justice for Jacob: The awards the academy is too cowardly to give
We need rich and beautiful celebrities to be mildly humiliated for our viewing pleasure.
- Jenna Guillaume
- Opinion
- Spectrum
Wordle is for dummies. Play this word game instead
I laugh at your cute little five-letter word puzzles, and I raise you Contexto.
- Robert Moran
If you only watch one event during these Winter Olympics, make it this one
It is inelegant, it is treacherous and it is joyfully unproblematic.
- Mali Cornish
Why are we paying hundreds to answer ‘what’s your job’?
The rise of the crowd-work comic: because thinking of a second joke is just too much effort.
- Luke Heggie
Minimalism is elitist and exhausting. Let me be messy
The appearance of having nothing is, perversely, for those who can afford anything.
- Mali Cornish
- Opinion
- Books
The long wait has ruined George R. R. Martin’s The Winds of Winter
No book can survive 14 years of hype.
- Charles Purcell