Nathan

Screenshot: Marvel AnimationThe scene with Callisto and Leech is quickly covered up by a passing issue of the Daily Bugle blowing across the screen, and it’s jam-packed with details. The biggest is the cover story highlighting a mutant fashion show—including a few intriguing mutants from the comics: Dust, introduced in the early aughts during New X-Men; Stacy X; Maggot; and Banshee. In a small pop-out bubble, two more young mutants are included in the form of Nature Girl and Loa, suggesting X-Men ‘97 is going to pull from…

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade began years before Willis hired Wade to work on Georgia’s election interference case against Donald Trump, according to testimony given by Willis’ former co-worker Robin Yeartie.  Yeartie’s testimony, given Thursday at a hearing over whether Willis will be allowed to remain on the case, contradicts statements and admissions made by the DA and Wade. Earlier this month, Willis and Wade acknowledged that they had had an…

Nathan Hill’s second novel monitors the health of a 21st-century marriage. A recent Oprah book club pick, it bears many of the hallmarks of big American social novels of the last 20 years by Jonathan Franzen, Michael Chabon or Jennifer Egan. It also shares many qualities with the author’s New York Times bestselling debut, 2016’s The Nix, another non-linear novel of fantastic abundance that explores public and private lives in Chicago and its surrounds.But where The Nix focused on the aspirations and failures of the baby…

A judge on Monday unsealed Nathan Wade's divorce file. It could reveal the extent of his allegedly romantic relationship with Fulton County DA Fani Willis The Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case against Donald Trump and 18 of his allies may be in trouble. Cobb County Superior Court Judge Henry Thompson on Monday unsealed the divorce file of Nathan Wade, the lead prosecutor in the Trump case. Wade has been accused of having an improper relationship with Fani Willis, the Fulton…

When The Nix, Nathan Hill’s debut novel, hit the bookshops in 2016, you could almost hear the collective intake of breath. How could any writer produce such a multilayered, time-jumping, character-hopping, consistently funny 200,000-word tale at his first attempt? Wisely, the wunderkind has taken his time to produce the next: at 600 or so close-typed pages, Wellness is barely shorter and no less shy of leaps across time and space. An equally remarkable panorama of American life, this new novel invites the reader to sink…

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Prior to this week, The Curse allowed the many problems in the Seigel marriage, and in the production of Fliplanthropy, to gradually simmer. With the penultimate episode, “Young Hearts,” all aspects of Whitney and Asher’s lives come to a full boil.  Whitney first went into the HGTV show with two goals: to make a killing in local real estate, and to publicly establish a do-gooder identity…

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. “Down and Dirty” begins with the inevitable catastrophe that Whitney created by letting the expensive jeans store keep her credit card on file to pay for all the shoplifters. Of course, word of this has spread throughout Española, and local teens are taking advantage of the situation, to the tune of a $14,000 charge so far for all the stolen merchandise. Between that and Fernando bringing in even…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNathan Stewart-Jarrett wants to talk about adversity, about the marginalised experience and the burden of appearing strong and powerful at all times. But his soup needs a stir. “I burnt it last time,” the star of Candyman and Channel 4’s unruly superhero comedy Misfits tells me. “It was a butternut squash soup and I just roasted the f***ing thing. I thought I got all the burnt bits…

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett loves an erotic thriller. “The Bedroom Window with Elizabeth McGovern. Body Heat with Kathleen Turner. The Last Seduction … I mean, basically, I love all of those movies,” he says.The reason we are talking about erotic thrillers is that this is how I have just described Femme, an electrifying two-hander starring Stewart-Jarrett as Jules, a drag queen who is beaten up by a gang of homophobic young men. His life derailed by the attack, Jules withdraws into himself, until a chance encounter at a gay…

This post contains spoilers for the third episode of The Curse, “Questa Lane,” which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Early in “Questa Lane,” Whitney and Asher have to suffer through the mortifying experience that is any Hollywood focus group, where the harsh opinions of a dozen random people can be treated as gospel by a network or studio. Whitney doesn’t come off terribly, though there’s a lot of skepticism about the concept of passive homes, including one person who’s an outright climate change…