'90s Week

Recently, roughly a quarter of a century after I fell into an adolescent obsession with Leonardo DiCaprio, I…

It’s 2010 and I’m in high school. My friend has invited me over to listen to her new record player, which she…

“I hate ‘feminist.’ Is this a good time to bring that up?” Joss Whedon asked. He paused knowingly, waiting for the…

In 1996, when an 18-year-old Fiona Apple was wrapping up work on her seminal debut album, Tidal, executives from…

When psychologist Mary Pipher was working as a therapist in the early 1990s, she began to notice an influx of…

There’s nothing wrong with pitting lust and responsibility against each other; the dynamic is arguably the most…

We are in a temporal loop. George Santayana’s 1905 observation that “those who cannot remember the past are…

In 1997 Joe Francis was working as a production assistant in reality television when he realized that most of the…

Cultural nostalgia recycles itself every two decades, so the conventional wisdom goes, and in February 2021, the…