Welcome to Richland, Ohio. Things aren't great. The town’s biggest employer is closing shop, and Richland is on the brink. It's where Mike Boyd, with his own set of problems, finds himself returning to after decades away. He's not planning to stay. But Richland has other plans for Mike; his old friend, Dave; and a newcomer, Andi. They're caught in a swirl of local troubles, private equity, executive theft…and something extremely weird involving Jeremy Keller’s prize cow.

In the wilderness bordering Afghanistan, an American soldier dies in a devastating explosion. Across the world, in a withering Pennsylvania factory town, his father is stabbed to death and left in the surrounding woods amidst colonial ruins known as Nowhere. The Recruiter wants Cameron Winter to find out why. Winter journeys into America’s aching heartland, to a small town called Kinnecombe, which is left to suffer through a triple plague of poverty, drugs and crime. His assignment is to solve a murder, and all that stands in his way is a deceptively soft-spoken gangster, a mob of local thugs, an American spy as crazy as she is beautiful, and a well-trained killer who can make himself invisible right up until the moment he puts a bullet in your brain.

When Johnny --- a filmmaker and grandson of the famous Black actress Mazelle Washington --- brings his family to Mazywood, the secluded California mountain lodge left behind by his grandmother, he expects a quiet retreat. Instead, he uncovers a legacy of rage, secrets and terror that has haunted his family for generations. As a young Black actress, Mazelle brushed shoulders with giants like Lena Horne, Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel. But beneath her public appearance, she carried a secret she had kept and nurtured since she was a child, when a dark wish came true and changed the course of her life forever. Now, 50 years after Mazelle’s death, Johnny finds himself confronting the truth she buried --- and the consequences she left behind.

Scott Bradley James, like the US Navy in which he serves, is uncertain of the course he sails, both in war and in love. While the threat of defeat that loomed over the first half of America’s war against Japan is behind him, much danger lies ahead. Disastrous mistakes can still be made --- and they will be. For James and his comrades, their cost will be high indeed --- both at sea against a fanatic foe, and on the home front in relations of the heart.

Foul-mouthed, scrappy and self-destructive, Steffie is her own worst enemy. Sustained by her sardonic sense of humor, she spends her days working at a dry cleaner and tending to her ailing, impoverished, abusive father. She was always his favorite, a fact that leaves her racked with guilt; her sister, Caroline, who bore the brunt of his rage, fled when they were both teenagers. When her father dies, Steffie sets out to find Caroline, seeking love and forgiveness in a world that too often has denied her both. Along the way, she must confront her own memories and the choices that have brought her to this point.

Mira and Kieran Carpenter are moving into their first home together, a run-down fixer-upper. It’s an opportunity for them to forget the betrayals of the past and restore their marriage along with this new home. But then a strange delivery is left by the front door. Neither Mira nor Kieran remember ordering it. There is no sender. No acknowledgment of its origin. Inside the package is an old wooden box. Then the messages start arriving. Anonymous texts, late-night phone calls and distorted voicemails: “Did you get the package?” Things start to go wrong. Around their new house. At work. In their personal relationships. Are they victims of some kind of horrific prank? Are they being tormented because of something they’ve done? Or are they gaslighting themselves into some kind of psychosis? 

In EISEN, Guzel Yakhina turns her formidable historical imagination to the life of Sergei Eisenstein, the revolutionary filmmaker who reshaped cinema --- and was nearly crushed by the system he helped glorify. From the triumph of Battleship Potemkin to the torment of censorship, exile and artistic compromise under Stalin, Yakhina traces Eisenstein’s life as a drama of creation under pressure. Moscow, Berlin, Paris and Mexico flicker past as art, politics, sexuality and power collide. Yakhina explores the cost of genius in an authoritarian world, the body as both instrument and battleground, and the impossible demand placed on artists to serve ideology without losing themselves.