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Hanh Nguyen is an Executive Editor, Culture & Food at Salon and an the award-winning culture critic whose work has also appeared on IndieWire, TVGuide.com and The Hollywood Reporter. She co-hosts the "Good Pop Culture Club" podcast, which examines the good pop that gets us through our days, from an Asian American perspective. Follow her on Bluesky @hanhonymous

Taron Egerton as Elton John in "Rocketman" (Paramount Pictures)

The best movies to stream in May, from “Rocketman” to “The Lovebirds”

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"Vinyl Nation" (Gilman Hall Pictures)

“Record stores changed our lives”: New doc “Vinyl Nation” celebrates Record Store Day at home

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Megan Stott in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Hulu)

On “Little Fires Everywhere,” everyone’s secret comes out, setting up for a heated finale

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Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller (Kristen Finn/Simon & Schuster)

“Why Fish Don’t Exist” explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life

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The Kim Family (Woo-sik Choi, Kang-ho Song, Hye-jin Jang, So-dam Park) in Parasite. (Courtesy of NEON + CJ Entertainment)

Something for everyone: The best movies to stream in April (updated)

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"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 reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days

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Julia Brown in "World on Fire" (PBS)

“It’s our foundation myth”: PBS’ “World on Fire” challenges the World War II narrative we know

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Kerry Washington, Celeste Ng, and Reese Witherspoon (Hulu)

From “New Waves” to “On Immunity,” what “Little Fires” author Celeste Ng is reading right now

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Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Hulu)

“She’s trying to soothe her own guilt”: Inside the racial dynamic of “Little Fires Everywhere”

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"Resistance," "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," and "Uncorked" (IFC Films, Neon, Netflix)

The best new movies you can watch from home in March

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The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel, Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit, Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua, and That Hair by Djailmilia Perira de Almeida (Tin House Books/Knopf/Bloomsbury Publishing/Willow Books)

The most exciting new fiction books coming out in March

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a primary election night rally, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, at Eastern Market in Detroit. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

“Gender is at the core of this”: Elizabeth Warren voters frustrated with grim Super Tuesday results

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Love Is Blind (Netflix)

From “Love Is Blind” to “The Circle,” the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect

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Anya Taylor-Joy in "Emma." (Focus Features)

“Emma.” finds its hilarious humanity through the body’s betrayals

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Neil Patrick Harris, Lena Waithe and Janet Mock in Apple’s “Visible: Out on Television,” premiering February 14. (Apple TV+)

“Visible”: The impact of TV on queer identity, before and after Ellen

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"Bird Summons," Leila Aboulela, "Everywhere You Don't Belong" by Gabriel Bump, "Upright Women Wanted" by Sarah Gailey. and "The Lost Book of Adana Moreau" by Michael Zapata (Black Cat/Algonquin Books/Tor/Hanover Square Press)

7 must-read novels to transport you in February

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Nick Hargrove, Jake Choi, and Sarah Yarkin, in "Single Parents" (ABC)

Polyamory is on the rise, and ABC’s comedy “Single Parents” is normalizing it with a loving throuple

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Shown from left to right: Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) and Sidney Parker (Theo James) (PBS)

PBS’ “Sanditon” brings Jane Austen’s racy and racist subtext into the open

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Cleanness by Garth Greenwell, Topics of Conversation: A Novel by Miranda Popkey, My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi, Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano, The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao, and Remembrance by Rita Woods (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group/William Morrow/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Atria Books/The Dial Press/Forge Books/Tor.com)

7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right

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"Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America!" (Marcus Russell Price/Netflix)

Ronny Chieng on Andrew Yang: “There aren’t enough Asian people in positions of power”

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Kelli Ferrell's cookbook "Kooking with Kelli" and her recipe for Crab Mac-n-Cheese (Cory Reese)

This crab mac and cheese recipe is a lively, decadent twist on a classic dish

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(Netflix)

Savior or con man? Netflix’s new series “Messiah” questions how belief is built

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So many things nobody needs (Neiman Marcus/Williams Sonoma/Walmart/Hammacher Schlemmer/Preppi/Goop/Precht/Amazon/)

From Oprah to Goop, these crazy gift guide suggestions caught Salon’s imagination

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Leftover carcass and bones from a Thanksgiving turkey on an oven tray at the kitchen counter. (Getty Images)

9 ideas for what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers, Salon-style

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