Month: April 2025

The Max show uses actors and real people to stage elaborate recreations and imaginings of events. It’s like a mystery tour, because you aren’t given any clues about the final destination.

Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: “We are no longer living in a democratic regime.”

A true smorgasbord is on offer for readers this week. Care for an inspirational memoir? Reminders of the precarious position of civilization? Early summer read? They’re all here.

Me: happy-go-lucky, helpful, healthy, honest, handsome, hopeful. You: a horse.

Didion’s book is an intimate chronicle of the author’s struggle to help her daughter, even if it meant digging into her own long-unexamined neuroses.

Rapper Fat Joe is charming, verbose, and direct. He is a man who radiates confidence. You wanna make a banger for the club? Fat Joe’s got em – Lean Back, What’s Luv? ft. Ashanti, and All The Way Up. The Bronx legend joins us on the latest episode of Bullseye to talk about collaborating with KRS-One , LL Cool J and his latest record The World Changed On Me. He also gets into his childhood, his family and how he keeps it real after three decades in the game.

The lovely rom-com The Wedding Banquet has a stellar all-star cast, including Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, and Bowen Yang. It’s a twisty comedy of errors where proposals, hookups, and harsh words fly. Directed by Andrew Ahn (Fire Island), the film offers a modern take on Ang Lee’s classic queer film.

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In the late 1980s, Stephanie Garber was driving through downtown Silver Spring, Md., when a large pickup truck hit her car. A woman swooped in to offer her a cup of tea and compassion.

Dorothy Parker’s posthumously published collection is Poems; Camilla Barnes’ debut novel is The Usual Desire to Kill. Both affirm: sharp humor can be grounded in pain.

After 11 seasons on ER, Wyle thought he was finished with medical dramas: “I spent 15 years avoiding — actively avoiding — walking down what I thought was either hallowed ground or traveled road.”