Ken Tucker reviews Robert Hilburn's biography of Newman, A Few Words in Defense of Our Country. Plus, we listen back to a 1998 archival interview with the Grammy Award-winning artist.
Contemporary painter, sculptor and installation artist Titus Kaphar, is known for taking classical forms of art and deconstructing them to reveal hidden truths that challenge historical narratives. His new film is Exhibiting Forgiveness.
New Yorker writer Susan Glasser says Trump is highly transactional, so billionaires may be betting on access and a seat at the table if he’s re-elected. It’s what some of them got in his first term.
Petty's classic album is being rereleased as Long After Dark Deluxe, including seven previously unreleased songs. Petty, who died in 2017, spoke to Fresh Air in 2006 about his influences.
The new comedy "Anora," which won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, opens in theaters this week. It's the latest comic drama from Sean Baker, the writer and director of "Tangerine," "The Florida Project" and "Red Rocket." And it stars Mikey Madison as a New York stripper who gets more than she bargained for when she marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Our film critic Justin Chang has this review.
Harjo was recently named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. His TV show Reservation Dogs focused on group of teenagers living on a Native reservation in rural Oklahoma. Originally broadcast Sept. 19, 2022.
Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zeran's 2015 debut novel, "The Remainder," was a finalist for the International Booker Prize. Her nonfiction book, "When Women Kill," was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critic Circle Award in Criticism. Her latest novel is called "Clean." Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says the world it depicts is anything but.
As IG, Glenn Fine oversaw investigations of the mishandling of documents in the Oklahoma bombing case, the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo and corruption in the Navy. His book is Watchdogs.
Historian Mary Ziegler talks about the legal battles shaping reproductive rights across the U.S. — including the scope of abortion access and the fate of invitro-fertilization.
Five days after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha fled his home in Gaza, along with his wife and their three young children. Two weeks later, their home was bombed, leaving it in rubble. He reflects on the past year of conflict.
Riley Keough discusses From Here to the Great Unknown, her mother Lisa Marie Presley's memoir, which Riley co-authored. Lisa Marie Presley died in 2023. She was Elvis' only child.
Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner spans the 1970s through the 1990s and focuses intensely on the relationship between the two Shred sisters who live with their parents in New Haven, Conn.
Rose, who died Sept. 30, was one of MLB's most accomplished players — and one of the most controversial. Rose was banned from the league in 1989 for betting on baseball. Originally broadcast in 2004.
This expertly cast film captures the rehearsals and the logistics that lead up to opening night. Saturday Night is a nonstop joy ride — and a testament to the adage that the show must go on.
Houston, who died Oct. 7, started out on the gospel circuit as a child, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and later guided her daughter, Whitney, to superstardom. Originally broadcast in 1998.
Keret, who lives in Tel Aviv, reflects on the protests in Israel and the U.S. over the hostages and Gaza. The son of Holocaust survivors, he has left- and right-wing political views in his own family.
