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Banned Books Week, an annual event that teachers and librarians across the U.S. mark with a combination of distress and defiance, is here again. The theme of this year's event, which takes place Sept. 18-24, is "Books…

Ignoring the poor is a great American pastime for the one percent. According to recent news reports, former NFL quarterback Brett Favre may have found a way, via his alleged involvement in a massive corruption scandal in…

Yes, it’s yet another subscription service to spend your hard-earned money on. But AppleTV+ offers surprisingly good value: with several Oscar nods under its belt, it’s quickly establishing itself as a player to be reckoned with in the…

Hoaxed | Tortoise MediaDua Lipa: At Your Service | Apple.comYou and Yours (BBC Radio 4) | BBC SoundsAlexi Mostrous, who presented last year’s true crime smash hit Sweet Bobby, a podcast about an astonishingly all-consuming catfish case, is…

Grammy award-winner Shawn Colvin joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about falling in love with the Beatles and breaking into the music business on the latest episode of "Everything Fab Four," a podcast co-produced by me…

For a moment it seemed like "The Great British Baking Show" might go stale, having lost the feeling of essentiality bestowed on it by the pandemic. Don't get us wrong; good old "GBBO" (an acronym of its U.K. title "Great…

After exile from her Algerian homeland (her crime: being a political singer), Souad Massi enjoyed international success with her early solo albums, Raoui (2001) and Deb (2003). A poetic singer-songwriter in the western mould, Massi was…

English National Opera opens its season with Puccini’s Tosca, in a staging by Christof Loy, new to London, but first performed by the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki in 2018. Conducted by Leo Hussain, it’s a compelling, albeit…

Muscular in its action sequences, sweeping in scope; a big, flexing, show-off spectacle of a movie. The Woman King is the kind of historical epic that just doesn’t get made any more. And with a superb cast predominantly composed of Black…

It was, perhaps, only a matter of time before Björk, that great musical nature writer, worked her way round to the living world’s weirdest kingdom: the life-from-death forms of fungi. One of the most beautiful tracks on her 10th album,…