Vanessa Willoughby

FX’s Kindred, an eight-episode adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s seminal 1979 novel, follows 26-year-old Dana James (Mallori Johnson), an aspiring Black television writer living in Los Angeles who develops an uncontrollable power: time travel.

In 2017, women took to the streets in record numbers. The Women’s March, held the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, was the largest single-day protest in the United States, and an international call to arms against misogyny and sexism. This resurgence of feminism raised pertinent questions: Who gets to be a feminist and what does it mean to be a feminist today?

In Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, Felton looks back in order to uncover the path forward as he candidly details the surreal experience of being a prominent part of a pop culture juggernaut.

In today’s dating landscape, making a connection is as easy as downloading an app. But on Love Is Blind, singles are asked to take a huge leap of faith in testing the show’s central question: Can you really fall in love without seeing the other person first?

Amazon Prime Video’s Paper Girls, a television adaptation of writer Brian K. Vaughn and illustrator Cliff Chiang’s Eisner Award-winning comic book series, spotlights voices who are typically excluded or marginalized in mainstream science fiction: a radically diverse group of 12-year-old suburban girls.

Like storytelling, memory can carve a path to freedom. As Joan Didion wrote in “The White Album,” “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” In an often illogical, chaotic world, narratives can be a salve or a method of survival. They can help us grasp what Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria” of the human experience. But what if a community’s identity is intertwined with the incomprehensible cruelties of human bondage?

"The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic" features more than 60 writers unraveling dominant ideas of what Black women are "supposed" to be.