The Village Voice reviews Martha Schwendener’s new book on Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), who prophesied the dangers of digital tech.

David Letterman, Now (and Then)As his NBC show comes to streaming, the comedian looks back at those early years — and ponders the fate of the late-night landscape he helped shape.

Josef Palermo is an artist and arts organizer based in Washington, D.C. He was the Kennedy Center’s first curator of visual arts. I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could ...

Charmain Speirs was 40 years old when she met prophet Eric Adusah. For several years Charmain had been part of one of the fastest-growing Christian movements in the world, Pentecostalism. Through her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bateman’s rise was made possible by a leadership void. When FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for ...

It’s been 20 years since Warren Jeffs, the “prophet” who ran the cult-like polygamist Mormon offshoot the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Short Creek, Utah, was arrested ...

Trust Me: The False Prophet is a four-part docuseries, directed by Rachel Dretzin, that features cult expert Christine Marie; with her husband, videographer Tolga Katas, she infiltrated a ...

In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence Film-making effects change. Director Rachel Dretzin, a former ...

A man who declared himself a prophet and the heir to an imprisoned cult leader is the subject of a new Netflix documentary that follows a couple exposing his crimes. Samuel Bateman represented himself ...