In a new 'New Yorker' profile, celebrity food writer Alison Roman proves she still doesn't understand what she did wrong last May—and she doesn't really care to
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A New Yorker profile of Succession star Jeremy Strong went viral because it was honest, nuanced and highly revealing—a rarity these days.
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North West and Penelope Disick are venturing into social media content creation, and I'm positive that it’s all part of Kris Jenner's strategy.
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It impossible to think about Marilyn Manson’s recent Grammy nomination without also considering Janet Jackson’s post-Nipplegate shaming—and Justin Timberlake’s career triumphs.
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Taylor Swift knew her strategy for getting revenge on Scooter Braun—and selling *so many* albums—would work. Was it right, though?
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Travis Scott has a professional responsibility to ensure his fans' safety and security at his events—but he's been abdicating it for years.
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Women are the target audience for most of the wellness industry’s pseudoscientific cash grabs, and when it comes to healthcare, they’re the primary decision-makers in households across North America. So yes, we actually should be talking about Shailene Woodley when we talk about Aaron Rodgers’ COVID diagnosis.
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From Dave Chappelle to David Zucker, the writer and director of Airplane!, there’s been a lot of mansplaining about comedy this week, and I’m just going to spend this newsletter shutting it down, if that’s okay.
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It’s not surprising that the literary icon is amplifying TERF-adjacent opinions—or doubling down when criticized. To understand why, we just have to look at her past behaviour.
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Two magazine features dropped this week, both focused solely on Kumail Nanjiani’s new physique, and I have a lot of thoughts.
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Dawn Dorland, Ellen Pomepo and Katie Couric share a truly glaring lack of self-awareness, for starters. But they’ve also all recently told stories that they think make themselves look good, but instead illuminate their white privilege.
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The impulse to worry more about predatory men than the people they harm is deeply ingrained in our society, and it’s infuriating.
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Don’t be fooled—the rapper’s behaviour this week is less about vaccine hesitancy and more about distracting from her legal woes.
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The post-Certified Lover Boy discourse is as much about misogyny, grooming and Drake’s alleged misdeeds as it is about the music.
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The backlash to Lizzo’s “Rumors” video—including offensive tweets calling her mammy—only prove the point that representation is an important goal, but it’s only the first step toward an equitable society.
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Basic fascination with fancy people, a little bit of schadenfreude and, oh yes, deep frustration that they can neglect social mores in ways that racialized, fat and disabled folks cannot.
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We learned a lot about Britney Spears’ conservatorship this week. To help put it all in perspective, I recruited my friend Russ Martin, a writer, pop culture expert and long-time Britney fan.
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Talking to journalists is part of Osaka’s job–so what we *should* be asking is, what can tournaments and news outlets do to create a safe work environment for her?
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After Courtney Stodden reminded the internet that Chrissy Teigen was a terrible Twitter troll back in the day, I kept looking for feminist-leaning publications to weigh in. And I’m still waiting, tbh.
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The inadvertent message was that Gen Z isn't faced with the same unrealistic and damaging beauty ideals as millennials. But they definitely are.
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