With Becoming Wise, Krista Tippett discusses big questions about life and living with the best and brightest from across different fields of study.

Any lover of music for its emotional healing powers would tell you that there are times when all you want to listen to, and all you can really handle right then, is transparency through a voice and a piano in the background.

As a species we’re prone to optimism, sometimes to humanity’s detriment, but that hasn’t stopped an obsession with our own demise. Into the Forest is the latest effort to start when the world as we know it seems to be on the way out.

Playing like a historical version of the fifth season of The Wire, Deadline – U.S.A. is incredibly unsubtle, even preachy, in its message regarding the dangers of capitalism and sensationalism on the press.

Given how wonderfully dense and complex his best-known work with Hot Chip is, it is always surprising how relatively straightforward Alexis Taylor’s work is when he goes it alone.

Mike Birbiglia’s follow-up to Sleepwalk With Me is a drama in comedic trappings, and quite a bit more sad than you’d imagine a film with this cast would ever be.

Under the Floating Points moniker, Sam Shepherd blurred the lines between classical composition, modern electronic production, and jazz experimentation on last year’s debut Elaenia.

This is good. And some of it is very good. The trouble being that, production-wise, these songs want more power than they’re given.

Star Trek Beyond may stick to the series’ standard decorum, but by Spock’s ears it does it well.