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“I don’t want romantasy, I want Heathcliff!”

​​Welcome to Ask a Book Critic, a members-only feature packed with personalized book recommendations from senior correspondent and resident book...

06.05.2025 20

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The Me Too backlash has reached the point of claiming Harvey Weinstein is innocent

A few short years ago, Harvey Weinstein was widely considered the monster against which all other alleged sexual abusers were measured. As he begins...

01.05.2025 10

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The unspoken rules of MAGA womanhood

President Donald Trump has never had any trouble finding women to enthusiastically embrace his agenda. In the electorate, 45 percent of women voted...

25.04.2025 20

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The strange link between Trump’s tariffs and incel ideology

“Tariffs or this?” mused an X user on April 5, the day after Trump’s newly announced tariffs sent the Dow Jones spinning into its biggest drop...

14.04.2025 3

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Why it feels like 2007 again

In February, a group of men on a sports talk show casually spread a salacious and untrue rumor about the sex life of a teenage girl on national...

04.04.2025 10

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Disney is bungling its most treasured property

Disney’s new live-action Snow White, dogged by controversy after controversy, must have been cursed at birth by a wicked fairy (oops, wait, wrong...

21.03.2025 5

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Book recs for March: 4 portraits of complicated women

It’s been 12 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her last novel, Americanah, to overwhelming acclaim. In the time since, she’s...

18.03.2025 5

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The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years

The Great Gatsby is 100 years old this year, which feels right in a way. After all those years as a perennial mainstay of the American high school...

07.03.2025 10

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The impossibility of being Meghan Markle

What to do with Meghan Markle? Or, sorry — Meghan Sussex, as in the Duchess of, which she informs Mindy Kaling she prefers to be called on her new...

06.03.2025 10

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I tried to find my personal style and all I got was this existential crisis

For millennials everywhere, two of the most glamorous and terrifying fashionistas of the 2000s were the hosts of TLC’s What Not to Wear, Stacy...

06.03.2025 4

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A hippie memoir that will send you on a trek through Kathmandu

Next Page is a newsletter written by senior correspondent and book critic Constance Grady. She covers books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis,...

18.02.2025 10

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Trump’s petty revenge on the arts

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump got himself declared chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after purging the board of...

14.02.2025 20

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Luminous! A masterpiece! Why publishing can’t stop debating blurbs.

For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from...

10.02.2025 10

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Ask a Book Critic: How do I get back into reading after a break?

Welcome to Ask a Book Critic, a members-only feature packed with personalized book recommendations from senior correspondent and resident book critic...

04.02.2025 10

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Why Patrick Bateman endures

It’s been 25 years since American Psycho slunk its way on to movie screens. Yet the film, starring Christian Bale as yuppie serial killer Patrick...

03.02.2025 20

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Timothée Chalamet goes bro

Timothée Chalamet scored the second Oscar nomination of his young career this week, and he’s a favorite to take home the trophy. In many ways, his...

24.01.2025 5

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The waifish bro appeal of Timothée Chalamet

Timothée Chalamet scored the second Oscar nomination of his young career this week, and he’s a favorite to take home the trophy. In many ways, his...

24.01.2025 5

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Neil Gaiman and the problem of faux feminists

The faux-feminist man who is accused of being a secret predator is by now, after the revelations of the Me Too movement, a familiar figure. A few...

16.01.2025 30

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Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis?

The question has been hurtling through think pieces, op-eds, and ominous headlines over the past few years: Have American men stopped reading?...

03.01.2025 10

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The best books of 2024

06.12.2024 3

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Why Wicked’s politics feel so bizarrely timely

27.11.2024 4

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The not-so-subtle message of Trump’s disturbing Cabinet picks

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Everything you need to know about Wicked, explained by a Wicked know-it-all

20.11.2024 30

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Why libraries need librarians

13.11.2024 5

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4B, the protest movement that boycotts men, explained

08.11.2024 3

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So what if Martha Stewart is a perfectionist control freak?

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Gen Z is shocked by Trump’s Access Hollywood video. We should be, too.

31.10.2024 81000

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In a historic election, no one’s talking about feminism

30.10.2024 10

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The resurgence of the r-word

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Ta-Nehisi Coates has the diagnosis — but not the cure

06.10.2024 3

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Sally Rooney’s new book is an exquisite return to form

23.09.2024 81000

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Is this year’s snoozy Emmys the future of TV?

16.09.2024 81000

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How Republicans became the party of raunch

13.09.2024 81000

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Will Taylor Swift’s Kamala Harris endorsement actually matter?

11.09.2024 2

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The original Beetlejuice was diabolical magic

06.09.2024 3

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Why readers love — and love to hate — Colleen Hoover

08.08.2024 2

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Legendary activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on why those white people Zooms give her hope

02.08.2024 80500

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The best books of the year (so far)

20.07.2024 80500

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The summer of Glen Powell, explained

18.07.2024 3

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