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Suzy Weiss: What Do Rich Dorks Buy?
The dealer of fine arts is auctioning a dinosaur skeleton. Plus: Weddings are obscene now. But Lena Dunham’s new show is great.
Suzy Weiss
What ‘Love Island’ Gets Right About Dating
In an age of romantic apathy, ‘Love Island’ succeeds where modern dating fails.
Sascha Seinfeld
She Lost Her Husband. I Lost My Wife. Now We’re a Couple.
Love’s more complicated the second time around. The sweetness doesn’t erase the sorrow. The feelings coexist. We have each lost the love of our life…
Marty Goldensohn
My Husband Wants to Be Cremated. I’d Ignore His Dying Wish.
‘The Mortician,’ HBO’s horrifying docuseries about a sociopathic undertaker, is proof that my family is right: Sitting up with a corpse is the best way…
River Page
Suzy Weiss: If Kamala Harris Were President. . .
Plus: A musical that imagines Anne Frank as pansexual and Latinx. No, really.
Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss: Can Men Make Friends?
Plus: We made the straight men of The Free Press review ‘Sex and the City.’
Suzy Weiss
The Straight-Male Case for ‘Sex and the City’
I couldn’t help but wonder: Is Carrie Bradshaw the answer to the male-loneliness epidemic?
Will Rahn
Suzy Weiss: It’s Over for Anthony Bourdain’s Fanboys
This week, our culture czar stumbled into a dinosaur bodega and read ‘Heartburn’ for the first time. Also, she has another show about middle-aged…
Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss: I Stand with America’s First Granddaughter
I called up Greg Gutfeld to talk late night, watched a new Gen X divorce show and all of Kai Trump's TikTok, then went to a right-wing gallery opening…
Suzy Weiss
‘Adolescence’ Does a Disservice to Young Men
The new Netflix show is supposed to help counter toxic masculinity. Instead, it’ll exacerbate it.
Madeleine Kearns
Two Christians Made a Show about Jews. It’s Phenomenal.
‘House of David’ is a beautiful corrective to a lie that’s seeped into American culture: that Christians see Jews as enemies.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Alec Baldwin Killed Someone, Then Made a Show About It
After accidentally killing someone on set, the actor could have stepped out of the spotlight. Instead, he stars in a reality show about the ordeal.
Kat Rosenfield
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