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 ...
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 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 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 ...
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.
The Problem With Wicked
Thankfully, my Wicked audience was very well behaved. No singing along with Cynthia and Ariana, no dancing, and no pictures ...
A Detailed Review of the Sex Scenes in
In Sex Reviews, writers offer a sober critical assessment of the sex scenes in new films and television series. This ...
I’ve Never Gotten a Woman Off With This Basic Technique. I’ve Failed as a Man.
I have never been able to give any woman an orgasm with my penis. I can give orgasms via oral every time but I feel ...
If I Could Make Everyone See One Movie This Year, It’d Be This
In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, ...
My Mom Gave Me Terribly Cheap Christmas Gifts. When I Found Out Why, I Let Her Have It.
My mom is a big gift-giver. She’s always loved getting me and my siblings a lot during Christmas. She retired a few years ago ...
Help! I Just Found Out My Husband Racked Up $100,000 of Credit Card Debt Because He Was “Depressed.”
Banning your brother and his family is a decision that only your parents can make, since it’s their money that this new ...