The Racial Roots Behind The Term 'Nappy'
Where does the term "nappy" come from and why does it have such negative connotations? Is it possible to reclaim a word that has been used as a slur for so long?
Arts & Life
'Vigilance' Imagines A Chillingly Familiar Future
Reports of mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso have dominated the news in recent days; Robert Jackson Bennett's novella Vigilance draws a direct line from today's America to a bullet-riddled future.
'Fresh Air' Remembers Toni Morrison With 3 Conversations Over 4 Decades
The Nobel laureate died Monday at 88. Terry Gross talked with Morrison in 1987 after she wrote Beloved, in 1992 after she authored Jazz and in 2015 when she published God Help the Child.
'Jaws' Shark Gets His Bite Back: A Love Story
The last replica shark from the 1975 classic blockbuster, Jaws, has gotten a facelift on his way to a new museum.
'No Room For The Modest Hit Anymore': Broadway Prepares For Summer Closings
Broadway attendance is up — yet the $35 million production of King Kong is among the five shows cutting bait in the next two weekends, as musical theater undergoes a market correction.
'After The Wedding' There'll Be Dinner, Dancing And Dire Revelations
Bart Freundlich's gender-flipped remake of a twisty Danish film is glossy, slick and strangely sedate.
In The Overwritten, Undercooked 'The Kitchen,' Mob Wives Are Doin' It For Themselves
Andrea Berloff adapts a comics miniseries about mob wives taking over their jailed husbands' rackets; it's at its best once the stilted, speechifying dialogue settles down, and the pulpiness kicks in.
'Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark' Puts The BOO! In Book Adaptation
Alvin Schwartz's beloved children's books become an atmospheric, if repetitive, kid-friendly horror film.
'The Ghosts Of Eden Park' Seems Fittingly Haunted By Prohibition
Karen Abbott's page-turner teases with its central mystery, reaching its climactic final trial with a satisfying bang — though more on the politics of the time would have been a welcome layer.
'When I Was White' Centers On The Formation Of Race, Identity And Self
As the U.S. becomes more brown and black — resulting in a xenophobic backlash and nostalgia by some for white European immigrants — the ideas in Sarah Valentine's memoir become even more necessary.