Django Done Right
Despite moments of tone-deafness, the graphic novel treatment of Django animates the ethical puzzle of Tarantino's film with static vigor, and color to spare.
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Tales From TV Queendom
"Abnormally Normal" is the leading label of Melissa Joan Hart's new autobiography, but it's mostly normally abnormal in ways we've come to expect from Hollywood starlets.
Science Spoken Here?
Rashied Amini argues that, while the public's knowledge of science is woefully inadequate, scientists must learn to bridge divides of religion and a media world prone to sensationalism if the situation is to improve.
“Let’s Talk About Super Nits”
"From the CDC's Report On The Drug Resistent Head Lice Epidemic, 2019."
Raised in Vigilance
Watch Everything explores the career and times of U.S. District Judge Charles A. Shaw as one of three brothers growing up in racially-charged St. Louis, when personal tenacity and collective caution where a way of life.
Taking Liberty
You may think you know the story behind Auguste Bartholdi's creation of the Statue of Liberty, but you don't know the whole story until you read Elizabeth Mitchell's Liberty's Torch.
The Amazing Dr. Jaffe
Imperial Japan and the history of psychiatry through an American doctor merge and meld in A Curious Madness.
Days of Wrath
The Joads and their fellow Oakies may be today's Orange County conservatives, but the labor struggles and political tensions made real in the pages of Steinbeck's most famous book resonate 75 years later, and counting.
Nazis in Therapy
Crimes against humanity get their own diagnosis in Jack El-Hai's The Nazi and The Psychiatrist, a unique tour through both WWII and the history of mental health.
Rigor vs. Rigor Mortis
In The Smartest Kids In The World: And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley is that rare scribe deft enough to move from personal anecdote, to policy, case study, and back again.