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If you’ve read any novel by Carson McCullers, it’s probably The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, her bestselling 1940…

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing…

The A.V. Club’s list of 2019’s best albums was determined by 12 critics, who each submitted a ranked ballot of their…

When we paused to reflect on our favorite music at the year’s halfway mark, we already had more than enough releases…

In our look back at the best television of 2019, we’ll spare you the requisite references to “peak TV” and the…

Like television and film, the music industry has undergone seismic changes over the last 10 years, the effects of…

Trying to define television in the 2010s has proven just as great a task as keeping up with the surge in series,…

Angel Olsen originally planned to release two different takes on her fourth album, All Mirrors, simultaneously: a…

There is a version of the story of this company in which idealistic journalists, unconcerned with profit, are posed…

With all due respect to Death Row, no rap record label has ever consolidated and celebrated its power the way Cash…

Megan Rapinoe has spent this week enduring Swiss-cheese brained criticism from some powerful haters, but today,…

Just six months into a great year in music, we’ve seen strange, galactic records from R&B innovators Solange and…

The threat of nuclear winter and the return of a prestige drama from the dead(wood) made for some of the hottest…

Television is queerer than ever. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) reported a record-high number…

Madonna is modern pop’s original icon, someone whose music and influence will be shared, enjoyed, and debated for…

“Fight The Power” is arguably Public Enemy’s greatest moment. As the theme song for Spike Lee’s classic film Do The…

Hip-hop—like country music before it—has struggled to embrace LGBTQ+ artists, despite them flourishing on the edges…

In its most public aspects, country music lags behind in accepting and promoting LGTBQ artists. The genre’s deep…