Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Sweet Valley High’

How “Sweet Valley High,” a series of YA novels about blonde twins in California, made an impact on a schoolgirl in Nigeria.

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Sweet Valley High’

Guilty Pleasure: Tig Notaro defends ‘Photograph’ by Nickelback

Guilty Pleasure: Tig Notaro defends ‘Photograph’ by Nickelback

Guilty Pleasure: The word 'moist'

Guilty Pleasure: The word 'moist'

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Love Actually’

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Love Actually’

Guilty Pleasure: Lynda Barry steps into ‘The Family Circus’

Guilty Pleasure: Lynda Barry steps into ‘The Family Circus’

Guilty Pleasure: Hari Kondabolu loves ‘Untamed Heart’

The stand-up comedian reveals his gateway guilty pleasure.

Guilty Pleasure: Hari Kondabolu loves ‘Untamed Heart’

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Sweet Valley High’

How “Sweet Valley High,” a series of YA novels about blonde twins in California, made an impact on a schoolgirl in Nigeria.

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Sweet Valley High’

Werner Herzog on the art of narration, Gorbachev and cat videos

The craft behind Herzog’s unmistakable voice-over.

Werner Herzog on the art of narration, Gorbachev and cat videos

Guilty Pleasure: ‘The Godfather: Part III’

One brave critic not only defends, but praises Francis Ford Coppola’s much maligned sequel.

Guilty Pleasure: ‘The Godfather: Part III’

Guilty Pleasure: The anthropological whiteness of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies

Why a black Muslim prison reform activist became an aficionado of the all-white world of Hallmark Christmas movies.

Guilty Pleasure: The anthropological whiteness of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies

Guilty Pleasure: Learning to love Lawrence Welk

How someone who grew up thinking Lawrence Welk was square grew to find him oddly progressive ... and even subversive.

Guilty Pleasure: Learning to love Lawrence Welk
Styx in concert in 1978.

Guilty Pleasure: Defending Styx’s ‘Babe’

A writer comes clean about his secret favorite song.

Guilty Pleasure: Defending Styx’s ‘Babe’
A Christian rock festival in Pennsylvania, 2008.

Guilty Pleasure: Christian rock, for a nonbeliever

Listener Sam Cook left the church — but he can’t leave Christian rock behind.

Guilty Pleasure: Christian rock, for a nonbeliever
The most hated font in the world?

Guilty Pleasure: Comic Sans, the world's most hated typeface

The widely loathed font serves a noble purpose.

Guilty Pleasure: Comic Sans, the world's most hated typeface
Rosanne Cash performs in 2014

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Do That to Me One More Time’

Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash makes the case for why this pop song from 1980 is worth a deeper listen.

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Do That to Me One More Time’