BooksAlan Moore and literature’s fascination with the fourth dimensionAlan Moore’s mammoth new book, ’Jerusalem,’ is ambitious—but he’s hardly the first literary light to explore the meaning and possibility of the fourth dimension
Movies’Popstar’ exploits the fine line between stupid and BieberAndy Samberg’s Lonely Island comedy trio explain how their tribute/parody film springs from a bona fide love of pop
Culture’I’m not black. I’m O.J.!’ESPN’s 7.5-hour documentary uses O.J.’s story as a Trojan horse to plumb America’s central theme: race
MoviesA Scientology movie only Louis Theroux could makeLouis Theroux—who has made a career trying to understand subcultures in his oddball way—is the perfect man to tackle Scientology
NewsHow to legalize marijuana? Go DutchOur laws may soon be laxer than Holland’s—and a lot more corporate
TelevisionWhy now is the time for the return of ’The X-Files’An artifact of ’90s disaffection, ’The X-Files’ returns—tailored for our current era of government distrust
MoviesMichael Bay brings scorched-earth politics to the big screenThe blockbuster filmmaker’s lightly camouflaged world view comes out of the closet in 13 Hours
CultureWet Hot American prequel worthy of a beloved cult flopNetflix lures back Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper and a superstar cast for a prequel series that’s even more ridiculous than the original
MoviesHold onto your ruts: The consumerist nostalgia of ’Jurassic World’The very foundations of the new Jurassic Park film is a hyper-nostalgia that literally lets us relive the thrill of the original film
MoviesInterstellar: A cosmic love letter to the human spiritChristopher Nolan’s ’Interstellar’ is perfectly in tune with our Hadfieldian moment of pop astronomy