Lyra tries to find a true home, but a constant stream of shocking revelations makes it hard to trust anyone — anyone but herself ~Mild spoilers for the His Dark Materials books and first two episodes~ Questions of trust and identity dominate in the newest episode of His Dark Materials…

The first episode of HBO/BBC’s His Dark Materials is loyal to original, but what works in print doesn’t necessarily sing on screen If you aren’t already familiar with His Dark Materials, let me briefly contextualize HBO and the BBC’s new show: it’s based on Philip Pullman’s best-selling trilogy by the…

A condensed version of this article was published by Imperica. It is not unusual to meet someone who introduces themselves as Jewish, but immediately qualifies it with a phrase like, “But, really, only Jew-ish. I wasn’t raised very religiously.” I am certainly one of these people; we never kept kosher…

The new Starcourt mall is this season’s real Big Bad Spoilers ahead Netflix’s Stranger Things is known as a reliably fun romp through 80s nostalgia, filled with references to its classic music, films, and science fiction. It follows a band of kids who roam their small town freely (in a…

And why that’s a good thing. I got my bachelor’s degree at a small, elite liberal arts college college in California. There were only four hundred students in each year, the kind of school where you know everyone by senior year; at graduation, I counted the people I’d never spoken…

Why it’s queer, what the difference is, and why it matters Call Me By Your Name was an indie hit when it came out in 2017; directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet in its leading roles, it follows the story of two young men as…