Catch up with 1998 Week, and revisit Ang Lee's Hulk: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features we published this week.

Monday

• Wes Anderson walks the line between nerd and hipster in his films with Jason Schwartzman
  
• 1998 somehow brought us boy bands, nü-metal, and Neutral Milk Hotel
  
• 20 years of maligning Monica Lewinsky: Slate’s Slow Burn looks back on the Clinton scandal
  
• Hype Williams’ love of hip-hop animates the hallucinatory, underrated Belly
  
• Carpool Karaoke recharged late-night TV, but it’s running on fumes
  

Tuesday

• Lauryn Hill’s Miseducation is more than a crossover—it’s a beacon
  
• In the feminist fairy tales of 1998, the princess saves herself
  
• Bulworth’s politics remain timely, even if Warren Beatty’s awful rapping doesn’t
  
• David Costabile on singing and memorizing his way through his Better Call Saul resurrection
  

Wednesday

• Seinfeld ends, TRL begins, Titanic goes on and on: 17 pop culture windows into 1998
  
• In 1998, rap-rock and nü-metal really did seem like the future
  
• Metal Gear Solid’s greatest death scene is your own
  
• Mulan’s gender politics haven’t aged so gracefully
  

Thursday

• Sex, cities, sock puppets, superheroes, and short skirts: 24 hours of 1998 TV
  
• Sliding Doors split life in two for Gwyneth Paltrow
  
• Tirzah’s Devotion is loaded with weird, brilliant tracks
  
• Guacamelee! 2 flicks a candy-colored middle finger to meme haters and modern games
  

Friday

• The best movies of 1998
  
• Hello Pi, farewell Phil Hartman: 12 indelible pop culture moments from 1998
  
• Hulk didn’t smash
  
• Trash, class, and free cigarettes: My life with The Jerry Springer Show
  
• Dead Cells wants your love—and your cells
  
• Ariana Grande and Mogwai lead a stellar week in new music
  
• Coda explores marital tension in a Tolkienesque fantasy world
  
• Takashi Miike’s take on Heart Of Darkness is a lot more mellow than you’d think