Emily St. James
Former Critic at Large
Latest articles by Emily St. James
Streaming TV is artificially creating scarcity where none exists. That choice hurts viewers.
Great American Witch is your perfect Halloween gateway to the world of tabletop RPGs.
The seven-episode miniseries shows why Anya Taylor-Joy is one of the most exciting actors working today.
Over the Garden Wall is like a forgotten fairy tale, and it can be watched in under two hours.
From Smash Mouth’s “All Star” to the Yahoo yodeler, Cicierega makes music that sounds like using the internet.
The No. 1 news network tells “stories” in a surprisingly similar fashion to a show like Lost.
This award-winning book is equal parts Game of Thrones, Cold War realpolitik, anti-colonialist tale, and Star Wars prequel.
The show’s empty Donald Trump caricature misses what makes the real one so dangerous.
How “the Vine cut” reflects our own mortality (yes, really).
The internet can seem like a horrible wasteland. But in small pockets of social media, love and support can be found among those with marginalized identities.