Month: April 2020

The ESPN documentary series follows the Bulls and Jordan through their hugely successful run of championships in the 1990s, and through the last season they had together.

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Kaitlin Chan humorously illustrates a how-to guide for meal-prepping during coronavirus quarantine.

David Allen Sibley’s name is synonymous with his bird field guides. In researching this volume, he became convinced of something new: Birds make complex decisions and experience emotions.

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In 1959, Kent Garrett was one of 18 black students accepted into a freshman class of more than 1,000. It was an early form of affirmative action, and he chronicles his time on campus in a new book.

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Pearl Thusi stars as a spy with a complicated past in the new crime drama. It’s Netflix’s first commissioned series fully produced in Africa.

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Food writer Sam Sifton talks about family meals in the time of COVID-19. Justin Chang recommends three films to watch while sheltering in place. Jason Bateman explores his darker side in Ozark.

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Hanks recently recovered from the coronavirus, so we called to check in on him. While he was on the line, we asked the man who played Mr. Rogers to answer three questions about very bad neighbors.

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Sopan Deb’s parents had an arranged marriage, but they were “a bad match from the start,” leading to years of unhappiness and estrangement. He writes about it in a new memoir, Missed Translations.

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NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with TV star Bob Odenkirk about the fifth season of “Better Call Saul” and the challenge of playing an established character backwards in time.

Bishakh Som’s new comics collection is uncanny and hard to categorize — science-fictiony, mythic and humanistic, without making any particular assumptions about where humans as a species are going.

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