Emily St. James
Former Critic at Large
Latest articles by Emily St. James
The Vox staff reviews all the winners and finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
The long-running animated series appears to be grappling with both global warming and its legacy — if only a little.
The Netflix drama’s final season saves the worst for last.
Cable news aims not to inform but to placate. It facilitated the rise of our current hellscape.
An episode split in two emphasizes what’s working — and what isn’t — about season 3.
Other offerings range from history to horror.
“I’m more like Lisa Simpson now than I was when I was 8. I wish I had been like Lisa Simpson when I was 8. Don’t we all?” Yeardley Smith says.
Twenty-five years after its debut, The X-Files is that rare show that seems to exist both in the time it aired and in the present.
Somehow, this show, of all shows, captures the arbitrary horrors of war.
It’s not a great movie — but boy is it cathartic.