The best antihero dramas aren’t vicarious thrill rides. They’re morality plays in reverse.
The recent glut of bad antihero dramas makes it worth remembering what makes for a good antihero drama.
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Jon Ronson on bespoke porn: ‘Nothing is too weird. We consider all requests’
Turned on by gremlins? Excited by ketchup or rare stamps? There’s a porn film for that. Inside California’s new growth industry
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The American Trail Race, Route, Riders & Rigs - BIKEPACKING.com
Riders, rigs, and details about the American Trail Race, a 5,000 mile bikepacking race following the mostly off-road Trans-America Trail across the USA.
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Are You a Self-Interrupter?
Our technology-rich world has proven to be both a blessing and a curse. While on the one hand we have access to information or people…
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The Hidden Sexism of How We Think About Risk - Issue 48: Chaos - Nautilus
My eldest son has long been irresistibly drawn to danger. At 6 months old he rolled across the entire expanse of the living room in…
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New golden age for science fiction in China, and what it has to offer
Recent Hugo Awards for Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang have shone spotlight on new generation of Chinese sci-fi writers; we talked to some about their hopes and the deeper meaning of their works at a recent Hong Kong conference
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Defy the Stars - Issue 48: Chaos - Nautilus
Count to five, Noemi decides. If she’s cracking up—if the terror of the past few minutes has scrambled her mind to the point where…
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Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? - Issue 47: Consciousness - Nautilus
Reading medieval literature, it’s hard not to be impressed with how much the characters get done—as when we read about King Harold…
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The United States of Billy Joel
The Piano Man hasn’t released a new pop album since 1993. How does he continue to sell out stadiums?
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Why Poverty Is Like a Disease
On paper alone you would never guess that I grew up poor and hungry. My most recent annual salary was over $700,000. I am a Truman…
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The Kekulé Problem - Issue 47: Consciousness - Nautilus
Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country…
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece
With the Netflix reboot here, let's take a look back at what made the original so great.
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Why You Feel the Urge to Jump - Issue 46: Balance - Nautilus
Have you ever stood in a high place and felt the urge to jump? Judith Dancoff did one beautiful, clear day on Deception Pass Bridge,…
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How Buffy the Vampire Slayer transformed TV as we know it
Five reasons the seminal teen series deserves just as much TV respect as The Sopranos.
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This Is My Brain on Rock Climbing
We reached Thank God Ledge on the Regular Northwest Face, of Yosemite’s iconic Half Dome climb, by mid-afternoon. This 40-foot horizontal…
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How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games - Issue 44: Luck - Nautilus
On Sept. 16, 2007, a Japanese YouTuber who goes by the handle “Computing Aesthetic” uploaded a forty-eight-second-long video with…
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The Evolution of 'Like'
How the ubiquitous, often-reviled word associated with young people and slackers represents the ever-changing English language
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How Your Brain Decides Without You - Issue 42: Fakes - Nautilus
Princeton’s Palmer Field, 1951. An autumn classic matching the unbeaten Tigers, with star tailback Dick Kazmaier—a gifted passer,…
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How Rom-Coms Undermine Women
American culture has long been confused about the location of the line between love and sexual violence. Hollywood deserves some of the blame for that.
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The Opposite of a Muse - The New Yorker
In the course of two decades, a medical secretary in Paris persuaded scores of renowned photographers to take her picture.
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How Sam Phillips Invented the Sound of Rock and Roll
The unusual engineering behind a legendary sound.
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Brian Wilson, Mike Love, and the Psychodrama Behind the Beach Boys’ Sun-Streaked Legacy
As two of the quintessentially California band’s members face off with dueling memoirs, James Wolcott assesses the conflict beneath the surface of its suntanned image.
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Thirty Years Later, Newt Remembers Filming Aliens
Carrie Henn now has a nine-year-old of her own, but she still remembers forging a bond with Sigourney Weaver.
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Black Flag’s Psychic Imprint
A look at the band’s cultural impact, 30 years after its last live show
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The Venmo Request: A New Wrinkle in Modern Dating - The New Yorker
When dealing with a century’s worth of mating mores, digital avoidance does have its advantages.
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Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War - The New Yorker
The S.S. Robin Moor set out from New York City on May 6, 1941, for a routine shipping run to Africa. All did not go as planned.
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How Pet Sounds Invented the Modern Pop Album
The Brian Wilson-helmed masterpiece paved the way for auteurs like Kanye West and anticipated the rise of the producer.
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You Won’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie
If the people at Disney have anything to say about it, the past four decades of Star Wars were merely prologue.
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