M&Ms
In this final round every word begins and ends with the letter M.
Arts & Life
Dialogue Drives The Story In 'The Silence Between Us'
Author Alison Gervais suffered permanent hearing loss as a child; her new book follows a deaf girl who's tossed into a hearing high school when her family moves just before her senior year.
'Drive Your Plow' Is Philosophical Lament, Disguised As A Whodunit
Olga Tokarczuk's novel, first published in Polish in 2009, follows an eccentric recluse in a village on the Czech-Polish border who's convinced she knows why dead bodies keep turning up around her.
Mawkish 'Blinded By The Light' Wears Its Too-Hungry Heart On Its Sleeve
Film critic/Springsteen superfan Chris Klimek says Gurinder Chadha's film about a British-Pakistani kid who finds inspiration in The Boss's music is affected and cloying.
'End Of The Century': When Sex With A Stranger ... Isn't, Quite
Julio Castro's tale of two men who hook up in Barcelona, only to realize they'd shared a similar encounter 20 years before, is full of big ideas bogged down by "mushy drama."
In Sweet, Funny 'Good Boys,' Tweens Don't Lose Their Innocence — They Just Misplace It
What could have been a cringeworthy misfire of tweens fumbling toward sex instead turns into a winning comedy that gets the sweetness-to-raunch ratio miraculously right.
An Unreliable Narrator, A Trail Colder Than Pickled Herring: 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld'
Conspiracy theories abound in this literally incredible documentary, in which an eccentric Danish journalist sets out to prove that Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 plane crash was no accident.
Ibram X. Kendi Says No One Is 'Not Racist.' So What Should We Do?
His new book How To Be Antiracist is a manual to follow; the author writes that "being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination."
It Slices, It Dices, It Binds, And Stops Bugs: Dental Floss Is Your Secret Multitool
From starting a fire to delivering a baby, that little box of string in your medicine cabinet is your best tool for tackling countless travel troubles.
How Hannah Shaw, The 'Kitten Lady,' Rescues The Most Fragile Felines
The professional cat advocate and caretaker has penned a new guide, Tiny but Mighty, on how to adopt neonatal kittens, who are often too vulnerable to be housed in standard animal shelters.