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."
This Spanish-language musical about a cartel boss who undergoes gender-affirming surgery won two big prizes at Cannes, including a shared best actress award for its four women leads.
Essayist Phil Klay says Trump tried to use the military to push his partisan agenda before, and may further erode norms around the military as he looks for those willing to "go with his whims."
The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. She writes about pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in a new book of essays, Lifeform. Originally broadcast March 12, 2024.
In the courtroom drama "Juror #2," the latest movie directed by Clint Eastwood, Nicholas Hoult plays a man called up for jury duty and is confronted with a moral crisis. The movie also features performances by Toni Collette and J.K. Simmons. Our film critic Justin Chang says it's a thoughtful, complex story and one of Eastwood's better recent films, and recommends that you see it in theaters while you can.
In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, its collapse cost depositors millions.
Netflix's film is based on a 1955 novel about a man who goes in search of the father he’d never met — only to discover that his father is dead, and the village he inhabited is haunted by ghosts.
Actor Saoirse Ronan is starring in two new films: Blitz and The Outrun. She joins Ann Marie Baldonado to discuss the movies and her experience as a child actor.
The renowned arranger, composer and producer worked with countless artists, including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson. Jones died Nov. 3. Originally broadcast in 2001.
Pacino says the initial script for the Godfather sequel was so bad he nearly passed on the project — until it was rewritten. The Oscar-winning actor looks back on his life in the memoir Sonny Boy.
Garr, who died Oct. 29, started out as a dancer in Elvis films, and was later nominated for an Oscar for Tootsie. David Bianculli offers an appreciation, and we listen back to a 2005 interview.
