Rubio once called Trump a "con artist." He's now among his most loyal defenders. New Yorker writer Dexter Filkins describes Secretary of State Rubio's character, political transformation and ambition.
Jodie Foster. Her new film is called "A Private Life." She plays a Freudian psychoanalyst who's compelled to investigate the mysterious death of a patient. The film is set in Paris, and Foster speaks French throughout. She's had a six-decade career which started at the age of three. She won Oscars for "Silence Of The Lambs" and "The Accused" and, more recently, was nominated for an Oscar for her work on the film "Nyad" and won an Emmy for her role in the latest season of HBO's "True Detective."
Moore says writing is mostly labor, but "2% of the time, usually at the very beginning of a book and the very end of a book, it feels like flying." She's the author of Long Bright River.
In 2022, his life and music became the subject of the hit Broadway musical "A Beautiful Noise." Neil Diamond is now 84 years old. Let's listen to Terry's interview with him, recorded in 2005.
Wyle, who spent 11 seasons on ER, returns to the hospital in The Pitt. Now in Season 2, the HBO series has earned praise for its depiction of the medical field. Originally broadcast April 21, 2025.
actor Tessa Thompson. She's starring in the new limited series "His & Hers," a true crime thriller on Netflix. She's known for her roles in "Dear White People," "Creed," "Thor: Ragnarok" and other Marvel movies, "Sorry To Bother You" and "Passing." For the "Creed" films, she cowrote and performed all of her character Bianca's songs.
Journalist Eric Lichtblau says President Trump's incendiary rhetoric has stoked a "new age of hate." His book centers on a murder committed by a young neo-Nazi in Orange County, Calif.
Once a fierce advocate for Trump and his MAGA base, Greene has broken with the president and resigned from Congress. New Yorker writer Charles Bethea discusses Greene's past — and what may lie ahead.
Ben Markovits' novel, "The Rest Of Our Lives," was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and has just been published here in the U.S. Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says it's the perfect little literary novel to curl up with, especially if winter weather has you feeling cooped up.
journalist Jacob Soboroff about his new book, "Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires And America's New Age Of Disaster." It's a firsthand account of the deadly wildfires one year ago this month in Los Angeles. Soboroff's book explores what those fires tell us about climate risk, policy failures and the growing era of extreme disasters in the U.S.
Hiller spent years scraping by in Hollywood before landing the role of Jeff on Somebody Somewhere. His memoir is Actress of a Certain Age. Originally broadcast Aug. 12, 2025.
Kind is the announcer and host sidekick on the Netflix show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. "You must understand — it's anarchy," he says of the show. Originally broadcast April 4, 2025.
Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the jazz notables who died this year, including Sheila Jordan, Andy Bey, Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Chuck Mangione, Eddie Palmieri and Jim McNeely.
Critic-at-large John Powers gives his due to the movies, TV and books he wasn't able to cover earlier in the year, including La Grazia, Andor, Mississippi Blue 42 and the documentary Mr. Scorsese.
In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize. In Finding My Way, she writes about her life at Oxford and beyond. Originally broadcast Oct. 21, 2025.
For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her latest Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy. Originally broadcast Sept. 25, 2025.
