Month: July 2021

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Jorge Camarena about “Spaceship,” his student film about a Latina transwoman in East Los Angeles who is on the verge of losing her daughter to child services.

Kinda like the tooth fairy but a few years more cynical and without any of the marketing.

Becky Chambers comes down to earth for her new series, about a world where humans and robots diverged so long ago that now each group is just a myth to the other, and robots propagate themselves.

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New cartoons from the magazine.

Soo created the role of Eliza Hamilton on Broadway and was just nominated for an Emmy for the televised version of her performance. We’ve asked her to play a game called “Hamilton? Try a ton o’ ham.”

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Anam’s new novel satirizes tech culture and boardroom sexism. David Bianculli reviews Schmigadoon! Sabathia shares stories from the mound — and of sobriety — in a new memoir.

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Before multiplex cinemas, India had tens of thousands of single-screen movie houses. But the way Indians watch movies has changed, and the pandemic forced many old cinemas to shut their doors forever.

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Season two of Mindy Kaling’s “steamy teen romance” gives Asian American characters their own complicated stories of navigating love, grief and even a new frenemy.

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