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Jesse Owens deserves a biopic. His life was important and dramatic, and it even lends itself to a narrative…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…

Early on in Lovecraft Country, a story is told about a black man journeying alone in Jim Crow-era America. The man…

“Here’s a man who could’ve been president. Who was as loved and hated and talked about as much as any man in our…

Last night, those attending a Jerry Seinfeld stand-up performance in New York got one of the most unexpected treats…

America is too diverse and varied a country for any single piece of art to define it as a whole. The ruggedness of…

Food is the key issue of the modern world, intricately connected to health, the environment, and poverty. It is…

Growing up, I loved Lynne Reid Banks’ The Indian In The Cupboard series, because of what I viewed as its analytical…

With Reading List, The A.V. Club asks one of our favorite pop-culture creators to describe a list of reading…

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s notorious tale of the pedophile Humbert Humbert and his obsession with the “nymphet”…

Taking a break from his routine of writing screenplays about rich men creating things, Variety reports that Aaron…

As she launched into the second chorus [of Pipe Dreams’ Sweet Thursday], and began a gentle, three-person soft shoe,…

He’s seems like such a pleasant man, so courteous and respectful, incapable of holding a grudge for more than 70…

The films of Pedro Almodóvar are twisty, lurid, and lustful, melodramatic but deeply empathetic, taboo-breaking but…

Your advent calendar is almost emptied of chocolate, family time looms, and you still don’t have presents for…

Lee Siegel’s Groucho Marx: The Comedy Of Existence opens with an image of its subject in profile, a photo of a man…

Though it gets vastly overshadowed by other genres, musical theater remains an important part of the music scene,…

Christmas is the day “around which the entire kid year revolved,” the writer and radio personality Jean Shepherd…

After a stellar year for the written word, The A.V. Club provides some of our favorite books for your consideration…

In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music…