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On Severance, Mark finally comes alive (season two)

Severance’s workplace brutality isn’t sci-fi. Neither is its worker power. (season one)

Organize your kitchen like a chef, not an influencer

The Rings of Power and the trouble with orc babies

serious eats

A Guide to Salt, the World’s Most Popular Food

A Guide to Pepper: The World’s Most Popular Spice

The A.v. Club

There and back again: Searching for insight in Tolkien and the author’s Oxford stomping grounds

This season, The Handmaid’s Tale is making the connection between Gilead and present-day America explicit

book reviews

George Saunders’s new novel will blow your fucking mind

Philip Pullman returns to His Dark Materials with the stunning follow-up La Belle Sauvage

TV Reviews

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Game Of Thrones

Words

We capitalized "Porgs," but it was a tricky decision: A message from The A.V. Club copy desk

There are two e’s in “Wookiee,” damn it: A message from The A.V. Club copy desk


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