When was the last time you read an unforgettable new novel? Or saw a phenomenal film? Have you even been to a movie theater this year? American culture is in crisis, wrote Kat Rosenfield in an essay that serves as her manifesto, now that she’s our new culture critic. Identitarian politics has sucked the life out of storytelling, everywhere from Hollywoo…
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