The first federal trial against disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly is underway. Tenacious reporting has explicitly centered the mostly Black girls and women who have accused him.
Words can seem infinite — but language has limits. In his new poetry collection, Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar shapes language into prayer, into body, into patchwork — but only into what can be known.
Winfred Rembert's autobiography features images of fishing in the culvert and dancing in the juke joint — but also of picking cotton, escaping a lynching and working on the chain gang.
Despite having gotten good reviews for his guest-hosting stint, new host (and executive producer) Mike Richards has found himself greeted with mixed feelings at best.
Even well-worn notes can sound freshly resonant in the right hands. A new film about Franklin's early years doesn't entirely avoid biopic conventions, but there's real intelligence and feeling in it.
In the new comedy series 'Reservation Dogs', four Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma are desperate for a new life in California. Native critic Vincent Schilling calls the show "ground breaking."
The trippy Netflix series about a student filmmaker who uses dark magic to get revenge on a sleazy producer borrows heavily from Cronenberg and Lynch, but tells a weird, gruesome tale all its own.
Ted Lasso stars Brett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham play the most whimsical TTOTO yet: a capella group, British children's TV shows, or American snack cakes made by the company "Hostess."
Linguists Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne, hosts of the podcast Lingthusiasm, play a word game where every answer is the title of a famous book with one letter changed.
In this music parody game, lyrics were added to some of John Williams' most famous movie themes, making them about other famous people with the last name Williams.
Couple-testants Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone play a music parody game in which songs with a question in their title are rewritten to be about types of tests.
Linguists Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne, hosts of the podcast Lingthusiasm, take on that challenge in this speed round about everyone's favorite pictograms.
