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Kate Winslet plays a small-town lead detective who's haunted by an unsolved case — and by her own past — in this excellent series. Mare of Easttown is both a mystery story and a character study.
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Empire of Pain author Patrick Radden Keefe says the Sackler family has "thrown a lot of energy" into trying to thwart his reporting about the family's involvement in the opioid crisis.
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Odom Jr. landed his first Broadway role at 16, and later starred as Aaron Burr in Hamilton. Now he's up for two Oscars, one for his role as Cooke in One Night in Miami.
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Writer-director Fennell describes her Oscar-nominated film about a woman who hunts down sexual predators as "a kind of fantasy" but also as something "much darker and, I hope, more honest than that."
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Carlile reflects on about her early life and the family she's built. Maureen Corrigan reviews Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge. Kassis began gathering family recipes after the birth of her first child.
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Reem Kassis began gathering family recipes after the birth of her first child. The recipes, she says, "could be the story of any and every Palestinian family." Her new book is The Arabesque Table.
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The jazz pianist only recorded two albums, the second of which was long believed to be lost. Now, the rediscovery of Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Sessionis cause for renewed celebration.
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What if a child doesn't share a parent's ambition? Kaitlyn Greenidge's novel is inspired by the life of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward, the third Black woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.
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Scott Weidensaul writes about bird migration in A World On the Wing. Ken Tucker reviews Elizabeth King's gospel album. Misha Green'sHBO series mixes the horrors of racism with supernatural terrors.
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Christopher Meloni spent 12 seasons on Law & Order: SVUbefore leaving the show in 2011. Now he's returning to the franchise, starring in Law & Order: Organized Crime. Originally broadcast April 2019.