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This week’s question comes from reader James Cobb:

Severus Snape went from a character we loved to hate to a character we just loved. His story is the Harry Potter…

Rebecca Solnit, an author long esteemed for her thoughtfulness and variety of interests, jumped to the kind of weird…

Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…

Cooperative games are the best sorts of games, especially if you’re a naturally competitive person. Instead of…

Caity PenzeyMoog: The Bachelor turns 15 this week. Alex McLevy and I—along with a glut of other A.V. Clubbers—recap…

Welcome to Gateways To Drinkery, where The Takeout offers an entry-level course on our favorite libations, and some…

In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the…

“The dictionary” is one of those background items that’s always just there, little thought about and quickly…

Monopoly continues to upset cherished childhood memories of familial anger and resentment, as visualized by your…

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…

Netflix has renewed A Series Of Unfortunate Events for a second season. It’ll pick up with the Baudelaire orphans at…

Once just populating high school reading lists and serving as jumping-off points for theoretical discussions,…

Billion-dollar corporation Starbucks knows that hipsters—a vague conceptual demographic here meaning “youngsters who…

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…

George Saunders’ new novel is an astonishing feat of prose—but the audiobook is even more dazzling for what it does…

Literary superstar and all-around cool guy George Saunders stopped by The A.V. Club to talk about his new book and…

Black History Month is coming to a close, so it’s a good time for readers to grab a copy of Ronald Wimberly’s Black…

Pixar originally wanted Billy Crystal to voice Buzz Lightyear in its first feature, 1995’s Toy Story (Crystal turned…

Merriam-Webster saw a spike of lookups for the word “feminism” on its site yesterday, following Trump administration…