Month: May 2021

Penguin Press In the Vox Book Club’s May pick, sin is petty and low-stakes. That’s what makes the book work. The Vox Book Club is linking to Bookshop.org to support...

NBC/YouTube SNL’s latest cold open tackles mask-wearing scenarios and new CDC guidance. This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that fully vaccinated people can discard their masks...

WarnerMedia’s Game of Thrones. | HBO The people who brought you Game of Thrones are merging with the people who bring you 90 Day Fiance. Five years ago, one of...

This story contains mild spoilers through Season 2 of For All Mankind. During the Geneva Summit of 1985, as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to negotiate their way out...

Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when her daughter called to tell her about the Sunshine Project. Named for its proximity to Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge, the operation, helmed by...

Illustration by Ayşe Klinge; Bettmann / Getty This article was published online on May 7, 2021. Richard Wright, the father figure of African American literature, both nurtured and was rejected...