Here’s a compilation of our favorite features we published this week.
Monday
- The A.V. Club’s favorite books of 2018 so far
- The best podcasts of 2018 so far
- Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants, and Ice-T livened up a numb 1986
Tuesday
- The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2018 so far
- Detroit, Westworld, and moving androids beyond human
- Ask an indie rock veteran: How do you bounce back from a disastrous tour?
Wednesday
- The best albums of 2018 so far
- GLOW is just the start: 16 unusual athletic events deserving TV dramatization
- Welcome to TV’s golden age of “What the hell did I just watch?”
Thursday
- The best films of 2018 so far
- Christina Ricci on sleeping over at Cher’s and the importance of being Wednesday
- At long last, Ned Flanders has received his own rap song
- Steam sale deep cuts: 20 under-the-radar games under $5
- How Twenty One Pilots rectify rock radio’s depression obsession
Friday
- The best TV of 2018 so far
- Mystery Men clumsily spoofed superhero movies before the genre even really took flight
- 8 works of pop culture that benefited from knowing nothing about them in advance
- Man Of Steel is the payoff for some of last year’s biggest comic book news
- With Jurassic World Revealed, Amazon shows voice games for Alexa are no joke
- Florence + The Machine, Gorillaz, and more albums to know about this week