Elise Pearlstein

This week’s art picks include drawings that explore deaf rage and experiences of trauma; a new age radio station broadcasting from a Santa Monica gallery; and a series of irregularly…

Clay Tweel’s HBO Max documentary on the New Age “cult of cults” that claimed dozens of lives raises powerful questions about the checkered histories of various religions.

This week’s picks include an artist who melds tradition, craft, and pop culture to create inclusive and uplifting messages; artworks that start on iPhones and end up large scale; and a…

Brit Bennett pushes questions of race and color to their extremes in her new novel, The Vanishing Half.

George Clooney exclusively told KCRW that President Donald Trump and his family will be put “into the dustbin of history” after a Trump-supporting mob besieged the Capitol building on…

Jen Craig discusses writing “Panthers and the Museum of Fire,” a short and expansive book that feels immense, rich and complex.

The three bright stars of HBO Max's "Let Them All Talk"--Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest-- improvised most of their dialogue during a trans-Atlantic crossing aboard the…

David Rieff discusses “Divorcing” by Susan Taubes: the reimagined end of an autobiographical marriage.

Historian Jon Wiener, who wrote “Conspiracy in the Streets” on the subject of the Netflix film, sets the record straight on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”