Thomas Langmann

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

The pandemic pummeled production. WarnerMedia started a war with its windows-shattering sneak attack. And Quibi, we hardly knew you.

Bryan Fogel won Netflix its first feature documentary Oscar with his Russian doping exposé “Icarus.”

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.

Facebook has banned President Trump, at least until his term is over. Twitter issued a 12-hour suspension of his account on Wednesday.

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.”

George C. Wolfe on power dynamics in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

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

In LA County right now, COVID-19 is killing one person every eight minutes .