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
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