Our pick for April is N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became.
And it’s free to play online!
Twisted devotion and a young woman’s awakening intertwine in the creepy tale.
Tiger King is just one bizarre story out of many of animal exploitation breeding chaos.
In Ask a Book Critic, Vox recommends books for your very specific moods.
Schlesinger, who also wrote the title track for That Thing You Do and most of the songs for The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, has died of Covid-19 complications at age 52.
Across six seasons and two networks, the terrifically funny comedy took on nearly every genre and pop culture trope.
The playful reality baking show celebrates the joy of sugar, friendship, and messing up.
If there’s justice in this world, Little Mix would have a No. 1 hit in the US.
The sci-fi series is one of the best TV shows ever made — and it’s finally streaming again.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, out now on Nintendo Switch, is pure happiness in video game form.
Dua Lipa gives us an escape in joyful, defiant dance-pop.
Come for queer soulmates, stay for epic fantasy, families, demon flutes, and love triumphing amid censorship.
In the world of New Girl, spring 2020 still involves kissing, so the show has that going for it.
The specialty streaming service has an expansive collection of masterpieces, cult classics, and more.
From cafes to the ocean to a spring walk in the woods, they’re exactly the sounds you might be missing right now.
M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf shows us how to take joy in the hardest of times.
It’s a short, sweet watch about two women in a potentially toxic relationship.
It’s Complicated, The Holiday, Parent Trap, Something’s Gotta Give — they are scientifically proven to make you feel better.
This video game is exactly what it sounds like. But it’s far more engaging than you might think it would be.
Her novels and novella dare to imagine a hopeful future for humanity. They’re exhilarating.
The series, set in the tech world of the ’80s and ’90s, has the hard-won optimism these times require.
From chess with bugs to a romantic comedy simulator, here are the best games for just two people to play.
In the game, you will play CDC employees racing to stop a disease from spreading across the globe.
It’s a brilliant series that contains what might be Dern’s finest performance.
“This show is queer as fuck. Queer and trans as fuck.” What’s not to love?
Elizabeth Olsen plays a young widow in this thoughtful and loving series about navigating grief.
The Canadian series has Shakespeare, ham trucks, and ghosts. It’s incredible.
The famed food magazine’s YouTube channel tackles how to make the big dinner perfect — step by grueling step.
In all possible meanings of that phrase.
It might be the most significant show of the 21st century.
This visually stunning show is a trippy sci-fi drama and a lovely story about a woman dealing with trauma, all in one.
The sci-fi series is the closest thing you’ll get to a TV show that’s a conspiracy wall.
The series — perhaps the best teen drama ever made — celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2019.
The series, about an underprivileged boy growing up in Florida, is from the writer of Moonlight.
The warm and weird drama series is full of feeling, even if its premise is tough to describe.
You won’t be able to look away from it. Literally.
It’s a savage satire of 20-somethings and an effective mystery. It’s great.
It’s a small-town drama that ends with a literal mushroom cloud.
The HBO miniseries doesn’t just tell you the story of the astronauts. It tells you the story of everything else, too.