It will become clear by the end of this sentence that I am not bragging about this, but there was a time when I felt like I ...

The moment I had long dreaded finally arrived: the day I’d have to dismantle my childhood. I suppose I should consider myself ...

Consider this a sister piece to the list of “The Worst Songs That We Love So Much” that ran yesterday, with a slightly different conceit. I asked some of my music and culture writer friends to confess ...

Some people are fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. This 2025 ...

It is easy enough to read about the climate crisis through the dozens of devastating stories that run each week, warning us ...

It’s pretty common these days for a television show to hold its viewers in contempt. Most “big-hearted comedies” treat you ...

I finally get Midnights. I don’t just mean, “Oh, I thought this album was whatever when I first heard it, and now I really ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. One of the things that a ...

In 2018, Mitski released her fifth album, Be the Cowboy. She had been putting out music that was as critically acclaimed as ...

An estate sale gives you a chance to look inside a person’s life. Did they own nice silverware? Were they a hoarder of ...

I’ve always struggled with the idea of a “guilty pleasure.” Truly innocent pleasure shouldn’t come with a side of shame. Most guilty pleasures are purposely private, indulged alone or among the ...

At some point in the thick of the pandemic, I became briefly obsessed with a silly-seeming online controversy over what is known as the double-beat theory. The argument concerns classical music, which ...