Strand Of Oaks: Songs Heal All Wounds
If you're going to be downbeat, glum, or morose, it's best to do it the way Timothy Showalter...
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'Friendship': A Startlingly Nice Novel By A Tough-Girl Blogger
Emily Gould's first novel stars 30-something single women in New York City who are figuring out...
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As Supreme Court Term Ends, Journalist Examines Its Decisions
The Supreme Court term ended Monday. The New York Times correspondent and lawyer Adam Liptak...
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Do Feelings Compute? If Not, The Turing Test Doesn't Mean Much
For the first time, a computer passed the test for machines engaging in intelligent thought....
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'The Great Fish Swap': How America Is Downgrading Its Seafood Supply
One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is...
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Comedian Joel McHale Talks Dyslexia, Bad TV And Filming A Thriller
The host of The Soup co-stars in the thriller Deliver Us From Evil. "I felt like a 12-year-old...
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Fresh Air Weekend: Mary Gauthier, Miranda Lambert, The Women Behind 'Obvious Child'
Singer Mary Gauthier discusses what inspired Trouble & Love; Ken Tucker reviews Miranda Lambert's...
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In The Mood For Apocalypse? Skip 'Transformers,' See 'Snowpiercer'
Film critic David Edelstein says Snowpiercer — a dystopian film based on a French graphic novel —...
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After The Rapture, Who Are 'The Leftovers'?
Tom Perrotta's 2011 novel examined the aftermath of an unexplained rapturelike event. A new HBO...
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'Fresh Air' Remembers Actor Eli Wallach
Wallach made a career of playing the villain in films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The...
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'Most Dangerous Book': A Rich Treasury Charting James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
There are many heroes in Kevin Birmingham's new book about the novel that sparked a revolution,...
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Lana Del Rey's 'Ultraviolence' Has A Firm Grasp On Pop History
Lana Del Rey continues a time-honored pop tradition of developing a public persona that...
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The Women Behind 'Obvious Child' Talk Farts, Abortion And Stage Fright
For her first feature film, director Gillian Robespierre says she wanted to cast Jenny Slate in...
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Dexter Filkins On ISIS And The 'Bitter Consequences' Of The Iraq War
The journalist who covered the war in Iraq, and its aftermath, details the militant Sunni...
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Mary Gauthier De-Romanticizes Romantic Love
Trouble & Love is about a relationship that went bad. "I think that this is one where Mary...
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'Fresh Air' Remembers Writer And Middle East Scholar Fouad Ajami
In 1988, Ajami spoke with Terry Gross about an essay he'd written about how political catastrophe...
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50 Years Ago, Students Fought For Black Rights During 'Freedom Summer'
A PBS documentary about the 1964 movement to get blacks to vote in Mississippi airs Tuesday....
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Fresh Air Weekend: John Oliver, Parquet Courts And Joshua Ferris
Comedian John Oliver pokes fun on his new show on HBO; Ken Tucker reviews Parquet Courts' third...
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'Jersey Boys' And 'Venus In Fur' Are Just As Intense On Screen
Two veteran directors adapted the Broadway shows to film. And while many such translations are...
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Remembering Horace Silver, Hard Bop Pioneer
Jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Horace Silver died Wednesday at age 85. Fresh Air critic...
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