Contributors
Doreen St. Félix
Doreen St. Félix has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017. Previously, she was a culture writer at MTV News. Her writing has appeared in the Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. In 2016, St. Félix was named one of Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in Media. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, and, in 2019, she won in the same category.
All Work
- On Television
Michaela Coel’s Chaos and Charisma in “I May Destroy You”
The HBO series about the aftermath of sexual assault is a hangout vehicle, a detective story, and a comic bildungsroman.
June 29, 2020
- On and Off the Avenue
The Embarrassment of Democrats Wearing Kente-Cloth Stoles
The theatrics from Democratic lawmakers on Monday felt not just misguided but like an outright mockery.
June 9, 2020
- On Television
In Minneapolis, the Shocking Arrest of the Journalist Omar Jimenez Live on CNN
CNN has spoken out on behalf of its reporter, but we would be remiss not to interrogate how the network has also wrung his ordeal for high-drama TV.
May 29, 2020
- On Television
Pleasure and Pain on HBO Max
Amid plastic simulacra of shows of yore, a documentary on sexual assault in hip-hop stands out.
May 28, 2020
- On Television
“Ramy” ’s Comedy of Spiritual Errors
The Hulu series, written by and starring Ramy Youssef, is a charming, melancholy meditation on the verboten.
May 18, 2020
- Cultural Comment
Tara Reade, Megyn Kelly, and the Politics of Believability
For Reade, choosing Kelly as an interviewer to discuss her allegations against Joe Biden might have seemed to offer some escape from partisan politics.
May 12, 2020
- On Television
The Best Television Shows to Stream Now
Our TV critics offer forty recommendations for home viewing, from the “The Brady Bunch” to “Schitt’s Creek,” plus documentaries, animated series, dramas, British cop shows, and everything in between.
May 6, 2020
- On Television
More Money More Problems in Kenya Barris’s “#blackAF”
In the Netflix series, a TV-show creator worries that, in moving on up, he’s become a fraud.
April 27, 2020
- On Television
Reviving Phyllis Schlafly in “Mrs. America”
The FX series is an intensely psychological portrait of the godmother of the modern anti-feminist movement.
April 20, 2020
- On Television
The Crass Pleasures of “Tiger King”
The hit Netflix true-crime series revels in its subjects, human beasts and their prey.
April 6, 2020
