Culture
Screens, stages, and the myths a culture tells itself when it thinks it is only being entertained.
Edited by Lila Voss · Los Angeles
Box office
The Odyssey has passed $1.35 billion and taken the R-rated record from Deadpool & Wolverine. The audience did not suddenly become classicists. The industry became desperate for a myth that still works.
Lila Voss · 4 min · 23 Aug 2026
Crime & culture
Duane Davis told a jury he had never told anyone the story. Then he walked police, and now the public, through the night Tupac Shakur was killed. Memory just became evidence.
Lila Voss · 23 Aug 2026
The firm, offstage
A departure for the U.K. is being written as a royal epic. The more accurate local story is smaller, and therefore truer: a zip code that has seen this movie before.
Lila Voss · 23 Aug 2026