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In 1938, Superman arrived in Action Comics #1 to bring costumed superheroes into the world. Superman spawned a host of imitators. But the next great innovation to the genre came in 1940, when Detective Comics #48 introduced Batman’s sidekick Robin. Designed to appeal to younger readers, Robin changed superhero comics

Ryan Coogler knows ball. If that wasn’t already apparent from his award-winning filmmaking work in Black Panther, Creed, and Sinners, it’s becoming increasingly clear by the ’90s pop culture he’s revealed himself to be a fan of. Not only does the Bay Area writer-director already have a promising X-Files reboot

Albert Camus’s 1942 novel The Stranger is a classic story about the randomness and meaninglessness of life as embodied in the character of Meursault, a young man who reacts to the death of his mother, the affection of his lover, and the murder he commits one sunny day on the

From 1968 through 1978, and then again from 1989 to 2003, the rich and powerful, the haughty and the vain, all feared one man; a man who looked like he had forgotten to comb his hair and couldn’t remember to remove his overcoat. That man was Lieutenant Columbo of the

The ending of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man left the franchise at something of a crossroads. With Tommy Shelby, the singular power behind both the series’ fictional gang and the show’s larger emotional narrative, dead for real this time, where would its story go next? What could be as compelling