The musician and executive producer of the WGN historical drama discusses the contemporary relevance of telling marginalized stories.
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The rapper is spending his good will—and $1 million in ticket sales—on Chicago Public Schools.
The show feels less urgent whenever it presents members of the Trump administration as brainless simpletons.
A new retrospective looks at a group of young photographers who infiltrated academic slide libraries with radical images of a changing city.
Julianne Pachico’s remarkably inventive debut navigates what it means to grow up wealthy amid the reality of conflict in Colombia.
Kingsley Amis’s 1976 alternate-history masterpiece The Alteration is an overlooked—but timely—novel about the dangers of authoritarianism.
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Jeffrey Blitz’s ensemble rom-com about a group of outcasts at a wedding is unfortunately staid and irritating.
Jordan Peele’s fantastic film relies heavily on the sense of sight to amplify its racial horror.
Ryan Murphy’s new FX series compellingly shows the sexist forces that pitted two titans against each other.
“Green Light,” the comeback single for the inventive pop star, is an upbeat announcement of change.
The rap star’s back-to-back new albums showcase his appeal with two very different sounds.
The late-night host emphasized America’s common interests with its southern neighbor in his latest international special.
The actor and the late-night host gave healthcare the theater-of-the-absurd treatment.
The British documentarian’s newest project is a fascinating failure.
In her new book, the author Lauren Elkin discusses the forgotten history of women artists who wandered the city and fought back against the masculine notion of the drifter.
The national dish is really a fusion of immigrant fare. An Object Lesson
The $35-a-month live-television package is the latest to try to capture the attention of cord-cutters.
On Tuesday evening, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel offered telling case studies in covering the president.
The comic-book icon rides into the sunset in grim, R-rated fashion—and it works.