tales

The news has been a steady, depressing drumbeat of complicity tales lately.

But happy endings aren’t meant to come at the start of romantic tales and the exuberance proves to be premature.

In Wilkerson’s stories of 20th century Black America, we also hear the echoes of today’s migrant tales — the persistence that brings people to look for better futures and the roadblocks that stand in their way.

As he turns 48, somewhere in the tunnels of Gaza, Lishay will be writing again, with tales of two daughters who were still babies when he last saw them.

HBO is a veritable warehouse of rich people's tales stretching to the pre- “Sex and the City” era, with “Big Little Lies,” “The Undoing” and “Succession” defining the contemporary generation.