winter 2023 Issue The Tragedy of the Commons by Martha Bayles TV’s Yellowstone and the conditions of freedom.
fall 2022 Issue The Pure Radiance of the Past by Martha Bayles The BBC series Wolf Hall is as beautifully cut, fitted, embroidered, and bejeweled as the heavy, intimidating garments of the Tudor nobility.
summer 2022 Issue A Light from the North by Martha Bayles Borgen, the celebrated Danish TV series about power, politics, and media, puts Hollywood in the shade.
winter 2022 Issue A Glorious Leveling Up by Martha Bayles Spielberg’s West Side Story is a masterpiece based on a masterpiece.
fall 2021 Issue Dare We Joke About the Woke? by Martha Bayles The satirical Netflix series The Chair is not sharp enough to draw blood.
summer 2021 Issue Souls on Wheels by Martha Bayles The film Nomadland expands the scope and meaning of the book that inspired it.
spring 2021 Issue They’re Not Lovin’ It by Martha Bayles Are America’s cultural exports worse than junk food?
winter 2021 Issue Heroic Witness by Martha Bayles The great novel of the Eastern Front, adapted for television.
fall 2020 Issue Tragedy with a Side of Redemption by Martha Bayles Rewatching HBO's masterpiece, The Wire.
summer 2020 Issue A Romance in Spite of Itself by Martha Bayles Normal People puts a postmodern twist on a classic tale of passion.
spring 2020 Issue A Mouthful of Bees by Martha Bayles Correcting the record on Clarence Thomas—again.