Mardi Gras With New Orleans Jazz Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens
Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:21:11 +0000
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Known as "Lady Louie," Doreen Ketchens has been a fixture of the French Quarter for nearly four deca...
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second
Mon, 03 Mar
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Hanif Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. He describes being co...
Best Of: Growing Up Murdoch / DOGE's Cuts To The Federal Workforce
Sat, 01 Mar
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Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins describes the rivalry among the children of 93 year-old media ti...
Jeremy Strong / Sebastian Stan / Adrien Brody
Fri, 28 Feb
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The Academy Awards are this Sunday. We hear from the two stars of the film The Apprentice, Sebastian...
Natasha Rothwell Checks Back Into 'The White Lotus'
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:56:40 +0000
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In the new season of The White Lotus, Natasha Rothwell reprises her role of spa manager Belinda, a w...
The Ripple Effect Of Musk's Government Purge
Wed, 26 Feb
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DOGE has eliminated thousands of federal jobs and canceled more than 1,000 contracts. Harvard profes...
The Murdoch Family's Real-Life 'Succession' Rivalry
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:31:58 +0000
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Rupert Murdoch and his oldest kids are battling over who controls his media empire when the 93-year-...
The Battle For The Soul Of The Catholic Church
Mon, 24 Feb
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In Jesus Wept, investigative journalist Philip Shenon examines the last seven popes, and how efforts...
Best Of: Louis Armstrong's Early Years / Our Anti-Social Century
Sat, 22 Feb
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We talk with author Ricky Riccardi about how Louis Armstrong became the first Black pop star and pro...
Andrew Scott Doesn't See Ripley As A Monster
Fri, 21 Feb
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In the series Ripley, Andrew Scott plays a con artist with no conscience. The actor says it was impo...
A Family Forged By Haiti's Coup
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:45 +0000
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Rich Benjamin's grandfather, Daniel Fignolé, was a popular Haitian labor leader who became Haiti's ...
How Regime Change Happens In America
Wed, 19 Feb
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During President Trump's first term, journalist Anne Applebaum reported on how he was moving toward ...
What Measles Outbreaks Tell Us About Public Health In America
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:11:11 +0000
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"Measles thrives on being underestimated," Dr. Adam Ratner says. The highly infectious disease was t...
Are Trump's Executive Orders Legal?
17 Feb 2025
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Constitutional scholar, historian, and New York Times staff writer Charlie Savage joins us this Pres...
Best Of: Sebastian Stan / Questlove On The Genius Of Sly Stone
Sat, 15 Feb
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Musician and documentary filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is back to talk about his new Hulu doc...
'SNL' Turns 50: Aykroyd, Franken, Zweibel & Lovitz
Fri, 14 Feb
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For Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary, we're featuring interviews with some of the early cast m...
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:45:02 +0000
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RaMell Ross's Oscar-nominated film, Nickel Boys, centers on two young Black men attempting to surviv...
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?
Wed, 12 Feb
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New York Times journalist Eric Lipton explains how Musk's companies are benefiting as he cuts federa...
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:54:39 +0000
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Sebastian Stan is up for an Oscar for his portrayal of President Trump early in his career, when Roy...
Questlove On Sly Stone & The Burden Of Black Genius
Mon, 10 Feb
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Questlove is back to talk about his new documentary about Sly Stone and his band the Family Stone. T...
Best Of: Ariana Grande / Inside A Dominatrix's Dungeon
Sat, 08 Feb
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We talk about the cultural phenomenon of Wicked with star Ariana Grande. She's nominated for an Osca...
Remembering British Singer Marianne Faithfull
Fri, 07 Feb
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Discovered at a Rolling Stones party at the age of 17, Marianne Faithfull broke out in the early '60...
A Dominatrix/Writer Takes Readers Into A Dungeon
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:47:00 +0000
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After publishing her first novel when she was 21, Brittany Newell started working as a dominatrix. T...
Trump's Plan For Gaza / The U.S. Military's Recruiting Crisis
Wed, 05 Feb
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Last night, President Trump proposed a plan to displace all the Palestinians from Gaza, and get Jord...
Ariana Grande Loves Being In A 'Beautiful Coven'
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:34:04 +0000
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As a kid, Ariana Grande loved singing karaoke with her family. "I looked up to Whitney and Mariah an...
Parenting A Child With Terminal Cancer
Mon, 03 Feb
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Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died from cancer when she was 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What d...
Best Of: 50 Years Of SNL Musical Guests / Black History Through Blues
Sat, 01 Feb
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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is the co-director of a new documentary about the music of Saturday Night...
For 'Severance' Star Adam Scott, Work & Life Can't Be Separated
Fri, 31 Jan
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The Apple TV+ drama series Severance is back for its second season. It's a dystopian take on work-li...
How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:24:46 +0000
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Author Ricky Riccardi says Louis Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the ...
This Anti-Social American Life
Wed, 29 Jan
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Research shows we're spending more time alone than ever before. Atlantic writer Derek Thompson says ...
What The Color Blue Tells About Black History
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:59:07 +0000
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Award-winning author and scholar Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, fro...
Questlove Digs Into 50 years Of 'SNL' Musical Hits (And Misses)
Mon, 27 Jan
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Questlove's documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, airs tonight on NBC. It highli...
Best Of: Jesse Eisenberg / Pamela Anderson
Sat, 25 Jan
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Jesse Eisenberg talks about writing, directing and starring in the film A Real Pain. Eisenberg and K...
Remembering David Lynch
Fri, 24 Jan
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Filmmaker and painter David Lynch died January 15 at age 78. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1994 about...
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:08:10 +0000
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Bloomberg investigative reporter Zeke Faux says the Trump family's new crypto businesses have earned...
Pamela Anderson Is Still Reinventing Herself
Wed, 22 Jan
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Pamela Anderson's role as a lifeguard on Baywatch made her a global sex symbol in the '90s. But she ...
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:52:25 +0000
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Eisenberg's film, A Real Pain, follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includ...
MLK, The Organizer & Radical Thinker
Mon, 20 Jan
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NYT columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflect on the st...
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.
Sat, 18 Jan
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Writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a 1990 California wildfire. After being rendered homeless and s...
The True Story Of Abuse And Injustice Behind 'Nickel Boys'
Fri, 17 Jan
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big scre...
The Secret History Of The Rape Kit
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:04:49 +0000
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Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells ...
How Losing Everything In A Wildfire Led Pico Iyer To Seek Silence
Wed, 15 Jan
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In 1990, writer Pico Iyer watched as a wildfire destroyed his mother's Santa Barbara home, where he ...
Can The U.S. Aquire Greenland? & Other Q's About Trump Foreign Policy
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:47:02 +0000
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In the past, Donald Trump talked about keeping America out of foreign conflicts — but lately he's ...
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism
Mon, 13 Jan
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A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," Roy Wood Jr. says. In his new H...
Best Of: Tilda Swinton / Adrien Brody
Sat, 11 Jan
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Tilda Swinton stars as a woman with cancer who decides she wants to end her life in the new Pedro Al...
Joan Baez / Suze Rotolo / Al Kooper On Dylan
Fri, 10 Jan
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A Complete Unknown – the film about Bob Dylan is in theaters. We're featuring interviews with thre...
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:11:59 +0000
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The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his conc...
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death
Wed, 08 Jan
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In Pedro Almodóvar's film The Room Next Door, Tilda Swinton plays a woman with late-stage cancer wh...
Adrien Brody Was Made For 'The Brutalist'
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:52:29 +0000
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Adrien Brody won a Golden Globe for his role in The Brutalist, as a Hungarian-Jewish architect and H...
Getting In Sync With Your Inner Clock
Mon, 06 Jan
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In an experiment, science journalist Lynne Peeples spent 10 days in an underground bunker, with no e...
Best Of: Comic Ronny Chieng / Writer Miranda July
Sat, 04 Jan
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After Trevor Noah started anchoring The Daily Show in 2015, he brought on Ronny Chieng as a field co...
Comic Nikki Glaser On Roasts & Hurt Feelings
Fri, 03 Jan
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The comic is hosting the Golden Globes this Sunday. She spoke with Terry Gross back in July about ro...
Alex Van Halen / Selena Gomez
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:40:07 +0000
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We continue our series featuring some of our favorite interviews from 2024, this time with Alex Van ...
Sterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
Wed, 01 Jan
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Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and another...
Mark Ruffalo Hates The Hulk Suit
Tue, 31 Dec 2024 08:00:59 +0000
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Ruffalo played a debauched cad in Yorgos Lanthimos' bawdy, dark comedy Poor Things. It was a big dep...
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)
Mon, 30 Dec
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Jimmy Carter died Sunday at age 100. The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross a few times over the ...
Maggie Rogers / Kathleen Hanna
Sat, 28 Dec
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In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Maggie Rogers considered quitting music e...
Connie Chung Regrets Being A Good Girl
Fri, 27 Dec
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This year TV news journalist Connie Chung wrote a new tell-all memoir. It's about breaking into the ...
Jeremy Strong Sees Acting As An Escape From Self
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:00:59 +0000
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Jeremy Strong is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as lawyer and political hitman Roy Cohn i...
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen
Wed, 25 Dec
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The new biopic A Complete Unknown follows a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York and changes Am...
David Byrne's Christmas Playlist
Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:00:59 +0000
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The singer-songwriter and Talking Heads frontman presents some of his favorite holiday music — inc...
Jon Batiste, Holiday Edition / Questlove Christmas
Mon, 23 Dec
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Jon Batiste joins us from the piano and plays some of his favorite Christmas songs. It's part two of...
Best Of: Billie Eilish & Finneas / The Colbert Cookbook
Sat, 21 Dec
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Award-winning sister-brother duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell talk about their songwriting pr...
Bonnie Raitt / Francis Ford Coppola
Fri, 20 Dec
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This month, musician Bonnie Raitt and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola were both honorees of the Kenne...
Miranda July Wants Women To Read Their Inner Lives In 'All Fours'
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:41:16 +0000
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Filmmaker and writer Miranda July, whose novel All Fours is on many best books of the year lists, an...
The Looming TikTok Ban
Wed, 18 Dec
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A new law gives TikTok a January 19 deadline to sell to a non-Chinese company or face a nationwide b...
Billie Eilish & Finneas
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:45:03 +0000
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The Grammy Award-winning singer says working with a vocal coach "honestly changed my life." Eilish a...
Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job
Mon, 16 Dec
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When Ronny Chieng got a job as a correspondent and then anchor at The Daily Show, he kept the news t...
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star
Sun, 15 Dec
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Pop sensation Elton John wrapped up his farewell tour in 2023, only to pop up in a surprise concert ...
Best Of: Jon Batiste's 'Beethoven Blues' / Visual Artist Mickalene Thomas
Sat, 14 Dec
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Jon Batiste joins us at the piano to play his reimaginings of Beethoven, and more. His new album is ...
Cynthia Erivo Sings With 'A Bit Of A Smile'
Fri, 13 Dec
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The British actor and singer played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and Aretha Franklin in G...
Cynthia Erivo Sings With 'A Bit Of A Smile'
Fri, 13 Dec
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The British actor and singer played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and Aretha Franklin in G...
Stephen & Evie Colbert Share The Taste Of Home
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:21:42 +0000
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Late Night host Stephen Colbert and his wife Evie McGee Colbert join Terry Gross to talk about famil...
The Housing Shortage, Explained
Wed, 11 Dec
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The U.S. is short approximately 4 million homes. Wharton professor Ben Keys traces the beginning of ...
Actor Danielle Deadwyler 'Overprepared' For 'The Piano Lesson'
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:31:44 +0000
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Danielle Deadwyler stars in the Netflix adaptation of the August Wilson play The Piano Lesson. She s...
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard
Mon, 09 Dec
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The former band leader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert returns to talk with Terry Gross about...
Werner Herzog Isn't The 'Wild Guy' You Think He Is
Fri, 06 Dec
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Herzog reflects on the curiosity that's fueled his career in the memoir, Every Man for Himself and G...
Best Of: Folk Musician Jerron Paxton / Lyricist Ira Gershwin's Legacy
Fri, 06 Dec
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Musician Jerron Paxton is known for performing music from the 1920s and '30s. He just came out with...
A Cultural History Of Hypochondria
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:07:38 +0000
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Are you hyper-vigilant about your health, constantly monitoring yourself and panicking when you feel...
Trump's 2nd Term & The Economy
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Economist David Wessel talks about Trump's plans on tariffs and tax cuts, and the potential economic...
Artist Mickalene Thomas Gives Black Women Their Flowers
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:01:07 +0000
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In Mickalene Thomas' work, Black women are front and center. "We've been supportive characters for f...
Folk Musician Jerron Paxton Transports Us To the '20s
Mon, 02 Dec
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We're going to hear from a musician whose music is vibrant, exciting and new — even if it sounds l...
Best Of: Making 'The Piano Lesson' / Selena Gomez
Sat, 30 Nov
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A new film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson play The Piano Lesson is now on Ne...
Pharrell Thinks He Sounds Like Mickey Mouse
Fri, 29 Nov
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The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell Williams' early life as a boy growing up in Virgini...
A Yo-Yo Ma Thanksgiving
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:00:59 +0000
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About 25 years ago, the acclaimed cellist asked a high school student to help him name his instrumen...
Canonical Lyricist Ira Gershwin Gets His Due
Wed, 27 Nov
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Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics for some of the most enduring songs in the Great American Songbook, in...
The Washington Family Brings 'The Piano Lesson' To Film
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:07:32 +0000
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August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson is about a conflict in a Black family o...
A Marine's Portrait Of Her Body At Extremes
Mon, 25 Nov
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During her years as a military linguist, Bailey Williams pushed her body to extremes. She later lear...
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang
Sat, 23 Nov
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Michael Schur wrote for the The Office, and created The Good Place, and co-created Parks and Recreat...
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin
Fri, 22 Nov
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Author Scott Eyman explains how silent film actor Charlie Chaplin was smeared in the press, scandali...
'Parks And Rec'& 'Good Place' Creator Michael Schur On His New Show
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:32:51 +0000
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Michael Schur wrote for the The Office, and created The Good Place, and co-created Parks and Recreat...
Trump, Journalism & The Rough Road Ahead
20 Nov 2024
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Trump has called the press the "enemy of the people" and threatened retribution, including jailing r...
Selena Gomez Has Found Her Balance
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:12:41 +0000
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The actor-singer-entrepreneur stars in Emilia Pérez, the new Spanish-language musical about a carte...
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background
Mon, 18 Nov
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In his new Hulu comedy series, Interior Chinatown, Jimmy O. Yang plays a waiter who inadvertently be...
Best Of: Why Do We Itch? / Writer Richard Price
Sat, 16 Nov
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Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowery suffers from a rare liver condition that causes severe chronic it...
Kerri Russell On 'The Diplomat'/ Remembering Dorothy Allison
Fri, 15 Nov
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Kerri Russell stars in the Netflix political drama The Diplomat as a foreign service officer tapped ...
How Screenwriting Saved Novelist Richard Price
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:49:45 +0000
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In Richard Price's new novel, Lazarus Man, a five-story building collapses, upending the lives of th...
What Trump's Foreign Policy Could Look Like
13 Nov 2024
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With wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine, and with high tariffs on the horizon, The Economist Editor-...
Why Do We Itch?
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:47:36 +0000
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We've all had bug bites, or dry scalp, or a sunburn that causes itch. But what if you felt itchy all...
Veteran Phil Klay On A 2nd Trump Administration & The Military
11 Nov 2024
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Author Phil Klay says Trump has been willing to politicize the military to push his partisan agenda ...