Who Run The Numbers Racket? Mom
In The World According to Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis has written a memoir about her mother, who ran a thriving underground gambling outfit in 1960s Detroit to provide for her family.
Arts & Life
In 'The New World,' Art Transforms Dystopia Into Camp
Author Aleš Kot and artist Tradd Moore create a zippy, dizzily excessive vision of a future where the entertainment industry has merged with law enforcement after nuclear catastrophe and war.
Newseum's Imposing D.C. Home Bought By Johns Hopkins For $372.5 Million
The deal, which remains subject to regulatory approval, represents an ambitious expansion for the Baltimore-based university — and the end of a turbulent era for the journalism museum.
'The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee' Aims To Usher In A New Narrative For Native Americans
Author David Treuer calls his new book a "counternarrative" to Dee Brown's 1970 classic. "I have tried to catch us not in the act of dying but, rather, in the radical act of living," he writes.
Mystery Miniseries 'I Am The Night' Borne From Real-Life Family Secrets
TNT's intriguing six-part series features Chris Pine as a washed-up newspaper reporter whose path collides with a teenage girl searching for the truth about her past.
Docudrama On Jews In Nazi Germany Can't Decide On Docu- Or Drama: 'The Invisibles'
A mix of dramatization and recorded interviews with Jews who managed to hide in plain sight in Berlin despite the Nazi dragnet, this hybrid film fights against itself.
Jada Pinkett-Smith, And Her Mom And Daughter, Get Candid On 'Red Table Talk'
The Web series, streaming on Facebook Watch, brings three women of different generations together to discuss emotional topics like mental health, racism, addiction, divorce and forgiveness.
Siblings Struggle (Hilariously) In Their Kid Brother's Shadow: 'The Other Two'
When their 13-year-old brother (Case Walker) becomes a YouTube star, directionless New Yorkers Brooke (Heléne Yorke) and Cary (Drew Tarver) reluctantly find themselves drawn into his entourage.
Godard's Latest Film, 'The Image Book': Montage, Collage, Plus Ça Change
Jean-Luc Godard's digressive film grapples with societal collapse through footage that has been distorted and reshuffled, hypersaturated or bleached of all color, until it is just barely recognizable.
'Serenity' Is All Wet. Literally.
A perpetually sodden Matthew McConaughey plays a fishing-charter captain drawn into a murder plot in this soapy, dopey tale that turns into an unconvincing fish story.