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Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action.

In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.

When I began forgetting words in midlife, I wondered if it was menopause--and worried that it was something more.

During a difficult year, comic relief came from unexpected places.

Also: the galloping Americana of Ryan Davis, Michael Urie's tragic "Richard II," a holiday roundup, Inkoo Kang's TV picks, and more.

How the restaurateur Gabrielle Hamilton--of the beloved New York City establishment Prune--became a noted memoirist.

"Coyote," a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself.

Taylor Sheridan's oil-industry drama trades in gender stereotypes, reactionary politics, and blatant product placement. Why, then, is it so damn satisfying?

The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho conjures fateful interconnections among vivid characters living in the grip of military dictatorship.

Jeremy Bamber has a new opportunity to clear his name. But will the British justice system acknowledge that it might have gotten this famous case wrong?