Terry Gross

Uggams performed in Beulah, Hallelujah Baby, Roots, Empire, American Fiction and the Deadpool films. She was the first Black woman to host a TV variety show. At 82, she's appearing in The Gilded Age.

As a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag, Joseph Lee takes readers beyond the celebrity summer scene of Martha's Vineyard and into the heart of Noepe, the name his people have called the island for centuries. His book is Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity.

In a new book, Grynbaum explores how Condé Nast publications were the arbiters of taste for decades in the U.S. Grynbaum's new book is called Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America.