Growing up, I was told my favorite comic-book heroine was white. And yet her struggles always seemed uniquely similar to my own.
In If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast, a new documentary airing on HBO, acclaimed nonagenarians including Carl Reiner and Betty White challenge stereotypes about life after 90.
The pop star’s benefit concert came with a message of unity—but also a display of resilience and formidable security.
The author of The Mighty Franks on the peculiar pleasures of writing his memoir—and then recording himself reading the whole thing aloud
The show’s co-creator discusses the writing of the third season, its relationship with religion, and the Wizard of Oz.
In “The Book of Nora,” a brilliant and continually surprising television show came to an end.
The Atlanta Braves executive became the first black man to run a Major League Baseball team—but few have followed in his footsteps in the last 40 years.
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The Minnesota senator’s new book explores his strange career path from Saturday Night Live to Congress.
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Whether because of the political events currently unfolding in America, the debut of the much-discussed Hulu adaptation in April…
The Underwoods make some problems go away.
Zoe Lister-Jones’s debut film, about a couple trying to salvage their relationship by turning their fights into songs, is too harrowing for its own good.
Paranoia sets in.
A little humor and charm—plus a breakout performance by Gal Gadot—can go a long way.
Frank draws a red line.
A nervous Inauguration Day arrives.
The character, created by a man who helped to invent the lie detector, is perfectly at home in a culture contending with weaponized lies.
Frank goes camping and Claire plays hardball.
A Criterion Collection re-release of the 2001 classic of teen disaffection feels dated in all the best ways.