Abby Wendle

As in past years , this is a list of favorite books of the year. Critics who use the term "best books" are not thinking.

After the deaths of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana, Joan Didion wrote "Blue Nights," the most personal and poetic book of her career.

Bradley Cooper has two films out — “Licorice Pizza” and “Nightmare Alley.” In the first of a two-part interview, Cooper tells KCRW how he prepared for each role.

Big budget action movies with big stars have traditionally been the bread and butter of Hollywood studios.

Documentarian Jonas Poher Rasmussen long wanted to tell the story of his friend, who fled Afghanistan as a child and ended up alone in a Danish town.

One woman says she spent approximately $19,000 to travel from Colorado with her teenage daughter to watch BTS live.

Writer Kelefa Sanneh on music’s relentless boundary blurring.

In "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America," the documentary filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler conjure with surprising concepts--including the weight of cotton--to…

For his exhaustive new book on HBO, James Andrew Miller talked to 600 people about the network that brought us “The Sopranos,” “The Wire” and “Veep.”