Bisma strongly believes pop culture shapes human lives. She is particularly concerned about the media portrayals of gender, class, race, and sexuality on television, their intersectionality, and ...

Game of Thrones concluded with a controversial series finale in 2019, leaving a mystery about one of the swords crafted from Lord Eddard Stark's (Sean Bean) sword, Ice. Ned Stark was shockingly ...

Jazz books often arrive on notoriously slow trains. For years — no, decades — a well-respected writer in New York was said to be working on the definitive biography of pianist Thelonious Monk, only to ...

Django Reinhardt is often overlooked as one of the seminal figures in jazz. Jazz, a uniquely American art, became international in the hands of Reinhardt and his partner in crime, French violinist ...