Corey Mandell

English actor Ian McShane talks American history and filmmaking in "Bolden".

The stories in Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, try to capture what’s human in what otherwise may only be trends.

While ratings for broadcast television continue to plummet, the annual ritual known as the upfronts soldiers on in New York.

At the beginning of Michael McKeever’s play at the Fountain Theatre, we are at the end of a dinner party.

Her fourth book, which took her six years to write, An American Marriage brought Tayari Jones to the attention of Oprah’s Book Club.

It’s TV staffing season: when writers look for jobs. But this year, writers have fired their agents in their battle over packaging fees.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp talks about the recent work of the respected L.A. artist

Meeting an ancient relative that’s no bigger than your thumb.

Michael Schneider joins us from New York, where he's attending the annual ritual of the broadcast TV upfronts.