In Mexico City, election season is impossible to miss. Even if you never read a single Mexican news outlet or watch a Mexican news channel or follow a candidate’s social media…

Last June, while on a family road trip across the southwest, I stopped in Gallup, New Mexico, a small city just across the border from Arizona. Located on historic Route 66, its seemingly endless Main Street offers nostalgic artifacts to the period.

Our small apartment in Geneva, Switzerland, has big windows that face the windows of the other apartments in the courtyard.

Baz Luhrmann’s enthralling and hypnotic Elvis (2022) depicts the making of the 1968 Comeback Special as an act of rebellion, which it indeed was, in more ways than the film has space to cover.

When most people think of Pat Nixon, the U.S. First Lady from 1968-74, nothing much comes to mind beyond a blank smile and interchangeable outfits. She represents the passive, supportive role that was standard for First Ladies until figures like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama challenged it. Exhibits about her at the Nixon Presidential Library, claiming to focus on her achievements, function primarily as rotating wardrobe displays.

Michael Schulman wrote in a September 2019 issue of the New Yorker about a freelance music critic named Wanna Thompson who faced prolonged, consequential online harassment after posting on Twitter about Nicki Minaj. “You know how dope it would be,” she wrote, “if Nicki put out mature content?…

Published - The Oxford Student, April 20, 2014

On the basis of its plot alone, you might walk into The Lunchbox expecting a kind of Bollywood You’ve Got Mail…

When a television program ends, fans can’t help but feel as if someone close to them died. Our most beloved presidents could not have asked for a better send off than Jon Stewart and ‘the character’ of Stephen Colbert received on their finales…

Published - Sarah Lawrence Phoenix, March 7, 2015

Films that are meant to be controversial don’t always become so for the reasons the filmmakers intended. Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo and the other major players of Selma…

The coverage of California’s drought in the weeks after Governor Jerry Brown mandated four hundred local water agencies to oversee a twenty-five percent reduction in usage suggests…

The Wolf of Wall Street aims to shock - the men the film depicts did nearly everything, however outrageous, it shows them doing. Based on the memoir of the same name, it recounts…

Louis C.K.’s distributive innovations have more often put him under the limelight than the contents sold through them. His multi-episode TV play, Horace and Pete, is no different….

Abraham Lincoln’s fixture in American society has long transcended the flesh and bone he once occupied. The five-dollar bill, the penny, and his 60-foot visage carved into Mount Rushmore…