At first glance, the next step in Netflix’s seemingly unstoppable march—now boasting 150 million users; and 700 programs released last year alone—looks like a step backward: the online streaming service is… Read more »

Ah, January. The holidays are over, and the only thing that remains are those weird chocolate liqueurs no-one wants to eat, and a nagging sense of regret: should I really have eaten… Read more »

In 2016 Phil Knight–the founder of Nike–published his memoir Shoe Dog. It jumped to #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and moved hundreds of thousands of copies. Now,… Read more »

If this were 2008, I would tell you to change your dial to ABC as you eagerly awaited the new Shonda Rhimes-produced drama sure to change TV forever. But it’s not… Read more »

This just in: Reading is on the decline. Maybe this isn’t so surprising, given the shortening of our attention spans, but people in media and trade publishing are certainly looking to… Read more »

How often do you find yourself binging a TV show instead of watching a movie? The answer varies, but it used to be far more one-sided. The current golden age… Read more »

Are you one of the 186 million viewers who tuned in to watch the Eurovision Song Contest this year? If you live in Iceland you almost definitely did: an incredible… Read more »

Although it often seems that we are indeed living in the Upside Down being chased by the Demogorgon, we do occasionally get some good news, and today we have some.… Read more »

On Friday, Netflix began streaming “The Center Will Not Hold,” the long-awaited documentary about Joan Didion directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne. “It was always going to be a love… Read more »

Absolutely anything in the world can be partisan. All of the things, all the time, forever. Case in point: the CBC’s “Anne With an E,” the latest TV adaptation of L.M. Montgomery’s classic Anne… Read more »