Another year, another stack of great books to read. PBS News Hour’s Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year.
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Another year, another stack of great books to read. PBS News Hour’s Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year.
“The…

Few terms in the lexicon of modern art have been as tirelessly invoked—or as thoroughly diluted—as subversion. One might almost expect Dior to release a fragrance called SUBVERSION, complete with a sleek advertising campaign that sells…

The Anatomy of Painting
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
October 12, 2025–January 18, 2026
Fort Worth, TX
In Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, intimacies can be read in the dimples of our skin, in our folds, in our bloodshot eyes. Bodies…

Rail: I like the idea of this compression being reinforced by the tree. The branches are bare and arc over the grouping so that it pushes further and further down on it. And of course, the branches themselves aren’t neat. They’re all over…

The Antichrist is coming — to South Park, that is — when the series returns for what may be its season 28 finale with a brand-new episode Wednesday night.
The episode, titled “The Crap Out,” looks to blend the show’s signature…

Michael Sherman collects the way he produces films: with an artist-first, public-facing ethos. He champions emerging voices and helps a large audience see their work.
The film producer co-founded Bow & Arrow Entertainment in 2014, devoted to…

Journalism and archival stories from The Atlantic will become fair game for scripted and unscripted film and TV adaptations, thanks to a first-look deal that the venerable publication has inked with Prologue Entertainment, the studio founded by…

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Prince Harry deserves to get taxpayer funded security, says an…

Eminem asked Kate Winslet for some NSFW help when she hosted Saturday Night Live with him as the musical guest in 2004.
“Also, I have to say something else, and this is a story I’ve never told anyone else. Eminem asked me to shave his…