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YANG | Free Entertainment Is Eating Up Your Free Time

By Stephen Yang | 6 hours ago

Let’s reclaim our leisure and entertainment. Let’s break up Big Tech.

The remains of a bush fire in Bell, New South Wales, Australia on Jan. 28, 2020. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)

YANDAVA | Jenny Offill’s 'Weather' and the Atmosphere of Anxiety

GUEST ROOM | Arts Editors’ Valentine’s Spectacular 2.0

BONO | The Fantabulous Emancipation of the Superpowered Girl Gang

SIMS | Reconnecting With Old Friends

By Katie Sims | February 6, 2020

These works and their creators were dear to me. I thought of them every day and trusted them to be there for me when I was upset.

YANG | Do You Still Watch Buzzfeed?

By Stephen Yang | February 3, 2020

Are we witnessing the burst of the digital media bubble?

YANDAVA | ‘The Goop Lab’ and the Snake Oil of Self-Optimization

By Ramya Yandava | February 2, 2020

Once self-care becomes repackaged as a commodity, it begins to prey on people’s insecurities

QUE | The Stability of an Annual Dental Membership

By Ruby Que | January 29, 2020

Coming into this semester I’m confronted even more frequently with the dreaded question of “what’s next?”

BONO | How The Witcher Mutated Across Entertainment Platforms

By Olivia Bono | January 27, 2020

Everything in Netflix’s Witcher is more cinematic, offering pieces of the world and story and encouraging the viewer to draw their own conclusions from them.

BULKELEY | Remembering Kobe Bryant

By Christina Bulkeley | January 26, 2020

Kobe Bryant’s impact on the game of basketball is immeasurable. In truth, I feel there is little I can add to Kobe’s canon. I have no new takes on his legacy, nor can I offer any analysis that has not been said already. But at times such as these, I think it is enough to simply remember.