This week we're celebrating the publication of Greg Mitchell's new book, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, with a book giveaway.

Last Friday Netflix released Wasp Network, a new espionage thriller by renowned French filmmaker Olivier Assayas. The film stars Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, Ana De Armas, and Gael García Bernal. Based on real life events, Wasp Network tells the story of the Cuban Five, a Cuban spy ring who posed as defectors to infiltrate anti-Communist extremists in Miami in the early 1990s.

Today, we are celebrating the 108th birthday of writer, orator, and icon Louis “Studs” Terkel (1912-2008). Studs was the author of many books, for which he interviewed hundreds of people, including Martin Luther King Jr., Leonard Bernstein, Gloria Steinem, Toni Morrison, and many others. Whether his subject was internationally recognized or virtually unknown, he listened to everyone’s story equally and wholeheartedly. As the New York Times put it, “Mr.