Welcome to our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about pop culture we've come across in the past seven days. Click the links in the article titles to read the full pieces, and let us know what we've missed:

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Last week's best pop-culture writing

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Ashley Fetters is a writer based in New Jersey, and a former staff writer at The Atlantic. Connect Twitter