What to expect in Viet Thanh Nguyen's sequel to his Pulitzer-Prize winning 'The Sympathizer'
Los Angeles Times· 21 hours agoIn Nguyen’s sequel, “The Committed,” his narrator is “still a man of two faces and two minds.” “I wasn’t done with his story,” says Nguyen, who joins the Los Angeles Times ...
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in March
Vanity Fair· 6 days agoWhat else is in the pipeline? Read on for more notable releases from Netflix in March. Biggie: I Got...
5 books not to miss: Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro returns, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Committed’
USA Today· 3 days agoWhat it’s about: From the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Never Let Me Go” and “The Remains of the Day” comes a new story told from the perspective of Klara, an Artificial ...
What really happened when federal officers persecuted Billie Holiday
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBillie Holiday,” the new Lee Daniels-directed movie. The drama, which premiered Friday on Hulu, is...
How TV Stories Have Shaped Our Understanding of AIDS
Vulture· 5 days agoIt is not an exaggeration to say that television has played an integral part in how many of us came to understand what the letters HIV and AIDS stand for...
What’s Up, Docs? A Year of Groundbreaking Nonfiction Movies
Vanity Fair· 6 days agoTwo young women were captured on videotape in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur airport poisoning the half...
Why it took Sister Souljah 22 years to write a followup to her groundbreaking novel
Los Angeles Times· 3 hours agoIts heroine, Winter Santiaga, the pampered daughter of a Brooklyn drug kingpin, uses her feminine wiles and hustler mentality to survive after her father’s empire suddenly comes crashing down ...
Your Anti-Racism Reading List Isn't Complete Without Fiction About Black People
HuffPost Life US· 7 days agoWhere was the heightened demand for novels that were centered on Black experiences and were written...
A Matter of 'Time': Director Garrett Bradley on Making the Year's Best Documentary
Rolling Stone· 4 days agoThe movie follows a black family living in the shadow of incarceration. At the center of that family...
Nomadland Disrupts Hollywood’s Fantasy of the Drifter
Jezebel· 2 hours agoThere’s a scene in Nomadland in which Fern, played by Frances McDormand as the film’s restless,...