Reinvention
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Enough With the 'Eras' Already April 29, 2024
Depending on who you ask, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is either “forgettable” or “an instant classic.” Among the people I would call “realistic Swifties” — not the kind of fans who would, say, gush over an eight-hour recording of her...
Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religion April 10, 2024
In the fall of 2021, the singer and songwriter Maggie Rogers entered the graduate program at Harvard Divinity School. For anyone unacquainted with the particulars of the degree Rogers was pursuing—a master’s in religion and public life—it might have ...
Shōgun Is Reinventing the TV Epic April 09, 2024
Last fall, I made a classroom full of 20-year-olds read The Da Vinci Code. It was a seminar for junior American culture studies majors, and one of the themes was to focus on cultural texts from the year 2003, the year when most of them were born. We ...
Diamond Dallas Page Tells America to Breathe April 02, 2024
With his grit and populist charisma, legendary wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, aka DDP, rose to the height of pop culture in 1997–1999 as he brought the wrestling world to the broader public with crossover appearances and matches with Hulk Hogan, the N...
