Kate Berlant's Mirror Maze

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( comedy review [Kate Berlant’s Mirror Maze]( In her Off Broadway show Kate, the comedian begs you to ignore her. Photo: Emilio Madrid A year or so ago, I saw a comedian’s hour-long autobiographical show. It was a carefully wrought tour through definitive childhood experiences, personality quirks, foundational traumas, and the loneliness of being a person, full of jokes that eventually gave way to scenes of gravity. The hour was individual to the comedian’s life and experiences, but it was also instantly recognizable as being on-trend, where the best and most “important” humor was really about sadness and trauma. The end was designed as a moment of revelation, a bit of stagecraft where props transformed into a portrait and were presented with the satisfying neatness of an algebra solution. Here is the true sum of this person. Here is honesty. How brave to be so vulnerable! [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now](for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: [Blaze It]( • Southern Charm: [French Misses]( • Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: [A Fugitive From an Orc Chain Gang]( • Cobra Kai: [Lost in Mexico]( (Ep. 1), [No Way Out]( (Ep. 2) • Bad Sisters: [Bull’s-eye]( Stories We Think You’ll Like 1. [Scott Thompson, the Once (and Future?) Queen The Kids in the Hall comedian reflects on his royal muse.]( As told to Anne Victoria Clark 2. [Wolfgang Tillmans Changed What Photos Look Like A career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane.]( 3. [How Inception, Jackie Chan, and Prince Inspired Jackson Wang’s MAGIC MAN “For this album, I just chose to be me.”]( 4. [Sheng Wang Refuses to Die on a Hill “I’m trying to connect audiences with their humanity. I’m trying to convince audiences to see me as a worthy whole human being just like they are.”]( By Vulture Editors [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( 5. [The Crown Isn’t Uncouth Like the Rest of Y’all The Netflix show officially paused production out of respect for the queen’s death.]( By Zoe Guy [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 5-Down, Five Letters: Morales of the Spider-Verse Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Vegas Uncork’d by Bon Appetit, FOX Image Collection via Getty Images, and Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Check out the work of cartoonist Kate Beaton. Her forthcoming memoir, Ducks, “is a monumental synthesis of Beaton herself,” [writes Kathryn VanArendonk,]( “incorporating her personal history, her sense of regional and national scope, and her insight into how people get caught inside massive systems.” [Read more from Vulture]( A Saturday newsletter from the people who make New York Magazine. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=vulture-daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved