The Tom Hanks Movie That Critics Hated—and I Kind of Loved
In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson—about the year in cinema. Read the first ...
Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of Dec. 23
In a Dec. 21 Slatest, Shirin Ali misstated that Judge Aileen Cannon was appointed in 2022. It was 2020.
My Uncommon Family History Has Turned Me Into a Liar. I’d Like a Way Out.
I was adopted at 13 into a family with five other kids. At 16, my adoptive parents sat me down and essentially said they were ...
My Grandmother Only Just Passed, and Now My Wife Wants to Radically Change Her Most Beloved Family Tradition
Every year, my family gets together for a big festive meal to celebrate New Year’s. This year, assuming no last-minute ...
Help! My Roommate Has a Big Following Online. She’s Using It to Blackmail Me.
Then she threatened to put me on blast on social media if I brought it up again. Tiffany has a decent following online, and I ...
My New Husband Can’t Keep His Hands Off Me. I Never Imagined That Would Be a Bad Thing.
My partner and I have been together for five years, living together for four, and are newly married. Since we’ve been married ...