Maureen Corrigan

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Your favorite toys are back in Toy Story 5, and they're facing some new competition, the dreaded tablet.

How will Buzz and Woody handle kids glued to screens?

And how does this new movie compare to others in the franchise?

We get into it on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour.

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I love reviewing books, but sometimes the pace of reading them can feel like that classic I Love Lucy episode at the chocolate factory.

The conveyor belt speeds up, and the books keep coming along faster than they can be wrapped in a review.

Summer gives me a chance to catch up with some good books that whizzed by in spring.

James Lasden, the family man, came out the first week of May, which is when I read it.

This nonfiction book, which grew out of a piece Lasden wrote for The New Yorker, is about the investigation and conviction of prominent South Carolina lawyer Alec Murdoch for the 2021 murders of his wife and adult son.

Then came the real-life plot twist—

A little over a week after Laszlo's book was published, Murdoch's conviction was overturned because of jury tampering.