As part of The A.V. Club’s best of the 2010s coverage, we asked some of our favorite authors to share their 10 favorite books of the decade. Next up is Bryan Washington. Washington’s debut, Lot, a collection of linked short stories set in Houston, traces the coming of age of a young gay man, the son of a Black mother…
In 10 For The ’10s, The A.V. Club looks back at the decade that was: 10 essays about the media that defined the 2010s, one for every year from 2010 to 2019. Today: 2019, “Old Town Road,” and art that became intertwined with memes.
Our Riverdale podcast Dial M For Maple returns from its bye week to discuss the rapidly escalating drama of the show’s latest outing, “Hereditary.” Hosts Marah and Cameron recap an episode that once again spreads its heroes to the wind, leaving each to fend for themselves against shady long-lost brothers, shady…
Who’d have thought that Punisher would fit right in to Thor’s fantasy world? Starting with the War Of The Realms crossover event, Frank Castle has been facing off against monsters from across the 10 realms, embarking on a cosmic mission to avenge the New Yorkers whose lives were impacted in the invasion. Written by…
Here, at the end of the 2010s, nearly every major American publisher is in the comics game. As more publishers have tapped into the booming market, bookstores, libraries, and schools have encouraged droves of new readers, which has generated new opportunities for creators. Graphic novels for young readers exploded,…
My boyfriend and I met online to explore our kinks. We’d both been in relationships with kink-shaming people who screwed with our heads. Since we weren’t thinking it was more than a hookup, we put all our baggage on the table early and wound up becoming friends. Eventually we realized we had a real connection and…
As part of The A.V. Club’s best of the 2010s coverage, we asked some of our favorite authors to share their 10 favorite books of the decade. Next up is Patty Yumi Cottrell. Cottrell’s novel, Sorry To Disrupt The Peace, published by McSweeney’s in 2017, follows 32-year-old Helen as she learns of her adoptive brother’s…
Time travel is one of the key plot devices of superhero comics. The medium allows creators to take advantage of the genre’s fantastic nature to tell stories about characters learning to better understand themselves and their worlds by traveling into the past and the future. Valiant’s Doctor Tomorrow is a hero built on…
Chris Onstad’s Achewood is one of the early stars of the early ’00s webcomics boom, gaining millions of monthly page views and widespread acclaim from mainstream press publications, including a spot on The A.V. Club’s Best Comics of the ’00s list. The series ran on-and-off for 15 years, telling absurd, hilarious…
Last month, The Ringer’s pop culture completist podcast returned from hiatus with a renewed vigor. Having thoroughly celebrated and analyzed all of HBO’s Game Of Thrones and the Harry Potter series of books and movies, hosts Mal and Jason turn their attention to the franchise with perhaps the largest cultural…
Although gory chapbooks detailing famous murder cases have been published in English since the 1500s, the true crime genre as we know it arose alongside modern police departments in the 19th century. In Victorian England, lovers of the salacious and morbid could not only read pamphlets and paperbacks about notorious…
The internet of 2010 is a lot different than the internet of 2019. Facebook hadn’t been politicized. Twitter wasn’t Donald Trump’s playground. Instagram was brand new and nobody was calling themselves an “influencer.” But even as a handful of for-profit platforms tightened their grip on online culture (and Netflix…
When actors—typically white male actors—are gunning for an Oscar, they go method. It’s about letting go of yourself and allowing the character to take over your mind and body, resulting in significant physical changes and heightened performances. In his new Koyama Press graphic novel, Bradley Of Him, Connor Willumsen…
As part of The A.V. Club’s best of the 2010s coverage, we asked some of our favorite authors to share their 10 favorite books of the decade. First up: Leslie Jamison. Jamison has managed to fit what could be an entire lifetime’s worth of writing into the past 10 years. She published her debut novel, The Gin Closet, in…
I am male. A close female friend was raped by an old acquaintance of mine. I knew this guy when we were tweens, I didn’t really care for him as we got older, so it goes. It turns out that a few years ago, he raped my friend in an alcohol blackout situation. I don’t know more than that. She says she considers the…
It’s hard to think of a fall from fame more dramatic than Leif Garrett’s. He was one of the hugest teen idols of the 1970s, his face plastered all over teen magazines like Tiger Beat and 16. Unlike teen stars who were promoting their musical groups (Donny Osmond) or TV shows (like The Hardy Boys Mysteries’ Shaun…
“You think, this will be a good story, one day.”
Do you think little things like fraud, a 14-day prison sentence, and being hated by the daughter you did it all for are going to get a star like Felicity Huffman down? Not in 14 Days With Felicity, a fictionalized account of Huffman’s two-week stint behind bars. Released daily, each episode is made up of conversations…
Readers have come to expect certain things from a comedy memoir, especially when it’s written by a woman. There are amusing descriptions of their awkward adolescence, followed by the wry exploration of their years spent trying to make it in an industry littered with crass men, hyper-competitiveness, and the impossible…
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