Jeva Lange

Culture Critic

Jeva Lange is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She is also a contributor to ScreenSlate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.

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Jeva Lange

The absurd future of stadium names

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Opinion

Marvel's Eternals does lazy, box-ticking diversity

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Opinion

Chloé Zhao's Eternals has so little of Chloé Zhao

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: November 4, 2021

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Consistent climate action wasn't on the menu at COP26

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: November 3, 2021

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Opinion

Winners and losers

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Opinion

QVC was ahead of its time

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: November 2, 2021

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vaccination nation

The FDA's review of the Moderna vaccine for teens could take until January 2022

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Rittenhouse trial

The Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial begins this week

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end of a streak

A small island nation just reported its first case of COVID-19 since the pandemic began

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keep your hands on the wheel

Philadelphia is banning police from pulling drivers over for minor traffic violations

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Jeva Lange

The inhumanity of 'haunted jails'

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 29, 2021

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The problem with crying wolf about the weather

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Opinion

The Braves' delayed racial reckoning

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 27, 2021

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'Nobody's gonna take my animals'

'Tiger King 2' trailer promises more bonkers moments from Joe Exotic

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Opinion

The 5 words that haunt me at 3 a.m.

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 26, 2021

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 25, 2021

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 22, 2021

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 21, 2021

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Opinion

The French Dispatch is a film for readers

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 20, 2021

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Opinion

Memento mori, Donald Trump

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 19, 2021

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 18, 2021

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Jeva Lange

Stop letting COVID infect TV

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Jeva Lange

Colin Powell's death is not proof of vaccine failure

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Opinion

Succession seems to think it's still 2019

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 15, 2021

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Jeva Lange

An ode to Adele's hands

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Daily gossip

The daily gossip: October 14, 2021

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Opinion

Dune should've been less Dune-y