Month: July 2025

Mottley’s latest novel follows three young women as they navigate pregnancy and motherhood in a small town in Florida. She sees the novel as an extension of her work as a doula.

To commemorate 10 years of SOPHIE’s debut, World Cafe put together a mix of “proto-hyperpop” tracks.

Previews of a new building at the LA County Museum of Art began last week. Some have bemoaned the cost and design, but many in attendance had nice things to say about the striking new galleries.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don’t talk about. Writer Jenny Han talks about why she understands embarrassment so well.

Love Island USA is pure chaos, and admittedly: we love it. It’s one of many spinoffs of the long-running British hit series, Love Island — and it might be the closest thing we’ve got to a watercooler event. The latest season of Peacock’s knowingly trashy reality dating show has fired up the group chats thanks to this messy batch of conventionally sexy singles. Sometimes, for better or worse, fans even get to stir the pot and decide who stays or goes.

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Plus: a new novel from Gary Shteyngart, a true story of a shipwreck, and a memoir from a wrongly incarcerated inmate who was exonerated after 28 years behind bars.

Saadiq has helped define the sound of modern R&B and soul for more than three decades, both as a member of Tony! Toni! Toné! and as a solo artist. He has a new, deeply personal one-man show.

Both are trying to kill me.

This week on Bullseye, George Takei returns to talk about his new graphic-memoir: It Rhymes with Takei. His memoir focuses on his personal journey through discovering his identity as a gay man, hiding it, and how it felt to finally come out publicly. Takei talks to Bullseye about this, as well as his experience living in incarceration camps, and his roots in Los Angeles.

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One debate that’s sure to draw a lot of strong opinions and hot takes — does listening to an audiobook count as reading?