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The Lady's Handbook For Her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey (Doubleday/Julius Schlosburg)

The marginalization of mystery illnesses

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Afterlife"" by Julia Alvarez, "Perfect Tunes"" by Emily Gould, "The Coyotes of Carthage"" by Steven Wright, "The House of Deep Water"" by Jeni McFarland, and "How to Pronounce Knife"" by Souvankham Thammavongsa" (Algonquin Books/Simon & Schuster/Harper Collins/G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Little, Brown and Company)

Recommended: April's new must-read books

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Gamer concept image (Getty Images)

Should we be playing video games now?

Alexander Kriss
Roseanne Barr (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Roseanne: COVID-19 is anti-boomer plot

Matthew Rozsa
Thandie Newton in "Westworld" (HBO)

"Westworld" and the fluency of a god

Melanie McFarland
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (HBO)

HBO's somber doc "Atlanta's Missing"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Julia Brown in "World on Fire" (PBS)

PBS' World War II drama "World on Fire"

Hanh Nguyen
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (Netflix)

The privileged craziness of "Tiger King"

Melanie McFarland
Slay The Dragon

How to un-rig an election

Andrew O'Hehir
Bob Dylan performs on stage (Joseph Okpako/Redferns)

Dylan's new epic: From JFK to pandemic

David Masciotra
"Kim's Convenience," "Absurd Planet," "#blackAF," "The Willoughbys" (Netflix)

What's new on Netflix in April

Ashlie D. Stevens
Sheltering In Place with Classic Albums (Getty Images/Salon)

Revisiting Nellie McKay's debut album

Kenneth Womack
Brooklyn Prince in "Home Before Dark" (Apple TV+)

Home Before Dark, an empowering mystery

Melanie McFarland
Word of Faith Fellowship church leader Jane Whaley talk to members of the media as husband Sam listens during a news conference in Spindale, N.C., Thursday, March 2, 1995. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Bob Odenkirk in "Better Call Saul" (Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television)

Better Call Saul asks: Cash or justice?

Melanie McFarland
Michiel Huisman in "The Other Lamb" (IFC Films)

A cult in decline in "The Other Lamb"

Gary M. Kramer
Slice missing from red velvet cake on a cakestand (Getty Images/ Martin Barraud)

A mission to make America bake again

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"One Child Nation" (Courtesy of Nanfu Wang)

"One Child Nation" & doubting authority

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Eve Lindley and Andre Benjamin in "Dispatches From Elsewhere" (AMC)

The mystery of Dispatches From Elsewhere

Melanie McFarland
Animal Crossing (Nintendo/Nicole Clark)

Animal Crossing gives structure we crave

Nicole Clark
Mamoudou Athie in "Uncorked" (Netflix)

Rejection and privilege in "Uncorked"

D. Watkins
The Daily Show Witch Trevor Noah: Social Distancing Edition (Comedy Central)

Live from home: Late night in quarantine

Melanie McFarland
Breeders (FX)

"Breeders" feels your parenting pain

Melanie McFarland
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) the spokesperson for the America First Committee (AFC) giving the Nazi arm salute during a rally on October 30, 1941 (Irving Haberman/IH Images/Getty Images)

Lindbergh's journey to racist extremism

Candace Fleming
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