TODAY: In 1900, Croatian writer and translator Hugo Badalić dies.   Aarathi Prasad on how silk helped Genghis Khan conquer a continent. | Lit Hub History “Shortly after 2:30, on the morning of Tuesday, April 30, one thousand New York City policemen marched onto the campus in military formation.” This isn’t the first time students have occupied...

If you haven’t read yesterday’s New York Magazine piece about the former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief and recently hired chief creative and content officer at The Daily Beast, I highly recommend it. It seems that the media industry, having tried pivoting to video, hedge funds, newsletters, and union busting, is back to rage-bait listicles. My favorite...

Conceived as a modern day Elizabeth Bennet—or at least, another woman in love with an emotionally unavailable man—Bridget Jones made a massive splash when she hit the shelves in 1996. Her diary, written by Helen Fielding and alternately derided and praised for its depiction of a neurotic, happy-go-nutty modern “singleton,” sold more than fifteen million...

I don’t usually include personal anecdotes in film reviews, lest they detract from the critical discussion at hand, but I’d just like to open this review by saying that I brought my 87-year-old Croatian grandmother with me to my advance screening of The Fall Guy in IMAX, and after we got her situated in her ADA seat and watched the trailers and the...

Airbnb, the vacation rental company and possibly why your rent is too high, recently announced a line of movie tie-in rentals inspired by cinema classics, including the house from Prince’s Purple Rain and a very precarious-looking, dangling recreation of the house from Up. While Disney adults craving an adrenaline rush might love being rocked to sleep...

On April 17, students at Columbia University set up an encampment in protest of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, while also calling for Columbia to divest from its financial ties to Israel. Since then, campuses across America—and around the world—have followed suit, triggering a wide range of reactions by university administrations, from successful...