Maya Phillips

Contributing Writer

Maya Phillips is an arts, entertainment, and culture writer whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vulture, Slate, Mashable, American Theatre, Black Nerd Problems, and more. She is also a web producer at The New Yorker, and her debut poetry collection, Erou, is forthcoming in fall 2019 from Four Way Books. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Feature

Weathering With You's climate change love story is a little too easy

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How The Crown keeps Queen Elizabeth at a distance

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Analysis

Dickinson's literary mistake

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The persistent relevance of Rocko's Modern Life and Invader Zim

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Opinion

Legion is a superhero story unlike any other on screen

J.K. Rowling Dumbledore and Grindelwald.

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The problem with authors writing fan fiction

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Analysis

How The Magicians dispels the magic of the singular hero

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Analysis

Can Peter Jackson break the steampunk curse?

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Opinion

Anime does superheroes better

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Analysis

Maya Phillips

Weathering With You's climate change love story is a little too easy

How The Crown keeps Queen Elizabeth at a distance

Dickinson's literary mistake

The persistent relevance of Rocko's Modern Life and Invader Zim

Legion is a superhero story unlike any other on screen

The problem with authors writing fan fiction

How The Magicians dispels the magic of the singular hero

Can Peter Jackson break the steampunk curse?

Anime does superheroes better

Disney is out of ideas