Plus: Silksong revisited, the 2024 Salem's Lot movie, and New York's abandoned honeymoon hotel.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. OK, not yet, but a Utah radio station has already launched into the holiday playlist.

Emily St. John Mandel's new novel asks us how we can hold onto our pasts without falling into poisonous nostalgia.

The following is excerpted from Every Time a Bell Rings, a book of essays about It’s A Wonderful Life by Lauren Theisen and Emily St. James. It is available for purchase now. The bridge in Seneca Fall...

We come to the end and grapple with Infinite Jest as a whole and what to make of the book's legacy

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT WITH FOILED DETAILS AND CUSTOM END PAPERSA fond and nostalgic cultural history of It's a Wonderful Life, celebrating the belove...

Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."

This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full and descend.

Connor Simos How badly does everyone want their own “Heated Rivalry”? Pretty badly, apparently. Netflix’s “Icebreaker” is the latest sign that streamers are ramping up their YA and New Adult romance adaptations, particularly books with enormous built-in fandoms, and suddenly the ice rink itself looks like some of the hottest real estate in television. Prime Video already has arguably the closest comparison in “Off Campus,” its adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s bestselling college-hockey romance novels. Continue reading Netflix Shoots For Its Own ‘Heated Rivalry’ With ‘Icebreaker,’ Casts Daisy Jelley & Newcomer Connor Simos at The Playlist.

In: Exit Party, Forgotten Island. Out: the idea that it should be easy to build a TV canon!!