Terry Gross

Lee's new film centers on a music mogul who faces a moral dilemma when kidnappers mistakenly hold his friend's son ransom instead of his own: Will he risk it all to save a child who isn't his?

For Bowen Yang, joining SNL as a writer in 2018, and then becoming a castmember the following year, was the fulfillment of a prophesy: during his senior year of high school, Yang had been voted "Most Likely to be on SNL." Looking back now, though, he insists that the superlative was "totally incidental." He's currently nominated for an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for his performances on the show.

Jordan, who died Aug. 11, was a teen when she first heard a Charlie Parker recording. Later she became part of the jazz scene in Detroit and New York City. Originally broadcast in 1981 and 1988.

In 2023, Mallon spoke about his novel, Up With the Sun, which is based on the life of a little-known actor who was gay and closeted. His new book is The Very Heart of it: New York Diaries, 1983-1994.

Pedro Pascal is up for an Emmy for his role in HBO's post-apocalyptic thriller The Last of Us. In the past decade, Pascal has become one of Hollywood's most magnetic leading men. This summer, he stars in Eddington, Materialists and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. He also recently appeared in the Disney series The Mandalorian.

Crockett grew up poor and got his start busking for tips. He's since played the Hollywood Bowl and been nominated for a Grammy. He talks music and plays songs from his new album, Dollar A Day.

For much of his career, actor Jeff Hiller felt stuck. He had a string of small parts, often playing rude people in customer service, but he longed for something more substantive. Then he landed the role of Joel, a sympathetic and supportive friend with a great sense of humor, on the HBO series Somebody Somewhere.

Actor Daniel Dae Kim first broke into Hollywood as one of the stars of popular TV series Lost. In the new Prime series, Butterfly, Kim plays David, a former spy for the U.S. who faked his own death years earlier to protect his young daughter.

Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, Born to Run, came out 50 years ago this month, marking a turning point for rock and roll — and for Springsteen. Carlin revisits the making of Born to Run in his new book, Tonight in Jungleland, which takes its name from the album's final track.

Fourteen million people in Sudan have been displaced by war and famine. The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum writes about the scale of destruction in her article, "The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth."