De Shields made his Broadway debut in the 1975 original production of The Wiz. He won a Tony in 2019 for his performance in Hadestown and co-stars in the new film of last year's London revival.

Clark was a baby in 1981 when her mother, a member of a radical left-wing group, acted as a getaway driver in the robbery of a Brink's truck. Her new novel is based on the years that followed.

Campbell co-wrote a number of hits for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. His new band is The Dirty Knobs, and their album is Mission of Mercy. Low Cut Connie's new album is Livin in the USA.

Writers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack describe The Invite as a sex comedy that's not really about sex. Kaye began working with Patti Smith in 1971. His new solo album is Goin' Local.

Critic David Bianculli says The Bear concludes its run with a beautiful final episode. And we listen back to a 2025 interview with Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d'.

Craig has cooked in a high-end restaurant — and for 7,800 prisoners in jail. He writes about cooking, his struggle with addiction and his Native American heritage in the memoir Our Knives Will Save Us.

Nathaniel Rich's literary thriller centers on a young couple who strike out against a data center. Cloudthief wraps a smart exploration of our data-dominated society inside an entertaining heist yarn.

The Odyssey feels like a prism through which Nolan's earlier films can be understood. A downbeat realist by nature, Nolan imbues the epic with a fascinating tension between fantasy and skepticism.

The New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan says the president is fixated on becoming a "great man of history" during his second term. Swan's new book, written with Maggie Haberman, is Regime Change.

The New Yorker writer Jonathan Blitzer says thousands of people are being held in tents in the El Paso desert, where inhumane conditions have become a tool to pressure people to accept deportation.