Haynes, who died Nov. 12, was a heavy hitter, whose limber beat could lift the bandstand. His 65-year recording career was studded with more classics than we have time to even hint at.
Gershwin wrote lyrics for enduring jazz standards, including "I Got Rhythm" and "Embraceable You". We talk with Michael Owen, author of Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words, and listen to some of his hits.
Actor John David and director Malcolm talk about growing up with their famous father, Denzel Washington, and collaborating with their dad and sister on the Netflix adaptation of August Wilson's play.
Bailey Williams, has written a new book that gives a vivid and at times brutal look at being a woman in the Marine Corps while struggling with disordered eating.
This Paramount+ series, featuring Billy Bob Thornton as a savvy veteran of the oil business, is an old-fashioned soap opera and a breezy portrait of one of the world's most influential industries.
This pre-Thanksgiving week sees the release of two much-anticipated studio movies. Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington star in "Gladiator II," the sequel to the Oscar-winning Roman epic "Gladiator," while Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star in "Wicked," an adaptation of the Broadway musical fantasy featuring characters from "The Wizard Of Oz." Our film critic Justin Chang has seen both "Wicked" and "Gladiator II" and has this review.
Ted Danson stars as a retired professor who goes undercover at a retirement community in a charming new Netflix series that's both entertaining and surprisingly philosophical.
Marty Baron is the former executive editor of The Washington Post and author of the memoir "Collision Of Power: Trump, Bezos, And The Washington Post," which is now out in paperback. David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker magazine and hosts the public radio program and podcast "The New Yorker Radio Hour." They talk about Trump's threats to the media, what it was like to cover him in his first term and the challenges journalists will likely face in his second term
Yoakam has recorded a harmonious new duet with Post Malone. Morris is stretching beyond country's borders. And Thompson — half of the duo Thompson Square — looks back to the roots of honky-tonk.
Earlier this year, "All We Imagine As Light" became the first Indian movie in three decades to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize. Our film critic Justin Chang says it's a luminous and affecting story about the friendship between two Mumbai-based women.
our guest is actor and stand-up comic Jimmy O. Yang. He costarred in the HBO show "Silicon Valley" and the film "Crazy Rich Asians." Now he's the star of the new television show "Interior Chinatown," based on the National Book Award-winning novel of the same name.
Russell played a Soviet spy in The Americans. She stars as a foreign service officer who becomes the U.S. ambassador in London in the Netflix series The Diplomat. Originally broadcast April 17, 2023.
Allison, who died Nov. 6, based her critically acclaimed novel on her own experience of being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Originally broadcast in 1992.
Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews poet Billy Collins' new collection Water, Water and the graphic novel The Dog Who Followed the Moon by James Norbury.
In Price's novel, a Harlem apartment building collapses, upending the lives of its residents, including a photographer, a funeral director and a 42-year-old man who feels he has little to live for.
With wars raging around the world and high tariffs looming, Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes says Trump's agenda may be chaotic — but she remains optimistic about possible good elements.
Journalist Annie Lowrey suffers from primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), a degenerative liver disease in which the body mistakenly attacks cells lining the bile ducts, causing them to inflame. The result is a severe itch that doesn't respond to antihistamines or steroids. Lowrey writes about living with PBC in the Atlantic article, "Why People Itch and How to Stop It."
