2018 in Pop Culture
The New Yorker Radio Hour 
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<p>The <em>New Yorker </em>staff writers <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jia-tolentino">Jia Tolentino</a>, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/doreen-st-felix">Doreen St. Félix</a>, and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/alexandra-schwartz">Alexandra Schwartz</a> all cover the culture beat from different angles. They talk with David Remnick about the emblematic pop-culture phenomena of 2018 that tell us where we were this year: how “Queer Eye” tried to fix masculinity, and how that spoke to women in the #MeToo era; whether “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” will mark a turning point in the representation of nonwhite people in film; and how, as Tolentino says, “A Star Is Born” was r“arguably the only event of the year that brought America together.” </p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
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