Critic David Bianculli says The Bear concludes its run with a beautiful final episode. And we listen back to a 2025 interview with Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d'.

Craig has cooked in a high-end restaurant — and for 7,800 prisoners in jail. He writes about cooking, his struggle with addiction and his Native American heritage in the memoir Our Knives Will Save Us.

Nathaniel Rich's literary thriller centers on a young couple who strike out against a data center. Cloudthief wraps a smart exploration of our data-dominated society inside an entertaining heist yarn.

The Odyssey feels like a prism through which Nolan's earlier films can be understood. A downbeat realist by nature, Nolan imbues the epic with a fascinating tension between fantasy and skepticism.

The New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan says the president is fixated on becoming a "great man of history" during his second term. Swan's new book, written with Maggie Haberman, is Regime Change.

The New Yorker writer Jonathan Blitzer says thousands of people are being held in tents in the El Paso desert, where inhumane conditions have become a tool to pressure people to accept deportation.

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack met decades ago, when McCormack's sister set them up on a date. It didn't work out as a romantic pairing, but it was the start of a long-running creative partnership.

Everywhere Man traces the trajectory of music producer Peter Asher. David Bianculli reviews Little House on the Prairie on Netflix. Kennedy Ryan believes happily-ever-after is for everyone.

The Apple TV series wraps noir inside science fiction. With subtlety and charm, Farrell plays an earnest alien just doing his best as a private eye in Los Angeles.

Netflix's new Little House series features the same characters and setting as the original, but its reliance on hand-held cameras, in extreme close-up, calls too much attention to itself.