What you should have watched this summer | What to Watch
Everything you should have watched this summer as recommended — for the final time — by Vox's film critic Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) and critic at large Emily VanDerWerff (@emilyvdw). Thanks for ...
10 Sep 202113min
Cocktails and caviar before my C-section | The Best Money I Ever Spent
Writer Gray Chapman tells us why a dinner of oysters, caviar, and champagne the night before she gave birth was the best $298 she ever spent. Link to essay: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22456529/be...
8 Sep 202114min
How to find yourself in a book | Ask a Book Critic
For our very last episode, a listener asked for books with disabled protagonists. Specifically, characters whose disability is not their defining trait. Ask a Book Critic will continue in text form, s...
7 Sep 20216min
$20,000 on Starbucks | The Best Money I Ever Spent
Writer Mae Rice goes to Starbucks every day. She tells us why she has no plans to stop. Link to essay: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/9/18296792/starbucks-habit-millennials-money Enjoyed this...
30 Aug 202110min
Welcome to The White Lotus | What to Watch
HBO’s hit series The White Lotus takes the darkly comedic mind of creator Mike White and turns it loose on an elite resort in Hawaii. It’s a very funny, very engrossing look at the global mega-rich, w...
27 Aug 20219min
Help me love reading again | Ask a Book Critic
A listener asks for help with getting out of a reading rut. A voracious reader as a child, they now need some help falling in love with reading again. Vox Book Critic Constance Grady recommends big, g...
23 Aug 202110min
Back to school | What to Watch
Three movies and a TV show perfect for back-to-school season. Alissa’s picks: ‘Legally Blonde’ ‘Approaching the Elephant’ Emily’s picks: ‘Community’ ‘To Have and To Be’ Enjoyed this episo...
20 Aug 202112min
