Griner spent nearly 300 days incarcerated in Russia after authorities at the Moscow airport found two nearly empty cartridges of cannabis in her luggage. The WNBA star spoke with Terry Gross about the dehumanizing prison conditions, her release, and return to the court.
Climate journalist Zoë Schlanger says a new wave of research suggests that plants are indeed "intelligent" in complex ways that challenge our understanding of agency and consciousness.
Jeff Daniels plays the title character in this Netflix series based on Tom Wolfe's novel. The tension isn't about whether he survives — we know he doesn't — but what he does in his final days.
In his first movie after his Oscar-nominated performance in "Barbie," Ryan Gosling stars as a Hollywood stunt double in the new action-comedy film "The Fall Guy." The film, which also stars Emily Blunt as a movie director, is loosely based on the 1980s TV series starring Lee Majors. It opens in theaters today. Our film critic Justin Chang has this review.
Auster, who died April 30, rose to fame in the 1980s with The New York Trilogy novels. His memoir, Winter Journal, focused on the history of his body. Originally broadcast in 1997, 2004 and 2012.
Congress and President Biden say TikTok must shed its financial ties to China or face a ban in the U.S. But Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell says selling the company is complicated.
In The Demon of Unrest, author Erik Larson chronicles the five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the start of the Civil War, drawing parallels to today's political climate.
Elisabeth Moss, who played Peggy in "Mad Men" and starred in "The Handmaid's Tale," stars in a new six-part drama series on Hulu. It's called "The Veil." And this time, she plays a British spy tasked with befriending a suspected female terrorist. "The Veil" is created and written by Steven Knight from "Peaky Blinders" and last year's World War II miniseries "All the Light We Cannot See." Our TV critic David Bianculli has this review.
In 1959, Rollins was a few years into one of the great hot streaks in jazz history when he took a three-week trip to Europe. Three hours from that tour are heard on a new Rollins-approved reissue.
Bardugo is best known for her YA Shadow and Bone series. Her adult novel, The Familiar, centers on a young woman in 16th century Spain who must hide her identity as a Jew who converted to Catholicism.
There's a new four-part documentary about Jon Bon Jovi's life and career called "Thank you, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story." Bon Jovi is celebrating the 40th anniversary of their first album and a new album will be released in June called "Forever."
This new collection of The Letters of Emily Dickinson is published by Harvard's Belknap Press and edited by two Dickinson scholars, Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell.
Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flux. Harpers journalist Daniel Bessner says TV and film writers are feeling the brunt of the changes.
Page describes Walters as a fearless journalist who didn't shy away from controversy or tough questions. She became known for her long-form interviews. Her conversations, which blended news and entertainment, featured a wide range of subjects, including Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, Richard Nixon, Monica Lewinsky, Michael Jackson and Charles Manson.
Though Swift performs a range of experience and emotions, the music on her 11th album feels thin and is often in service of lyrics that could have used a red pencil.
St. Vincent describes her latest album, All Born Screaming, as an exercise in "tension and release" — with some moments that play as sonic "jump scares."
In his new book, Minority Rule, Berman connects the debates and compromises of the country's founders to contemporary politics. He says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated power in the hands of the elite and that today, institutions like the Electoral College and the Senate — designed as a check against the power of the majority — are having much the same effect.
Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.
In 2014, the producers of This American Life presented a podcast called "Serial," examining the facts, and loose ends, involving a cold murder case. A year later, HBO followed with a TV equivalent: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. The Jinx – Part Two starts its behind-the-scenes narrative just as the original Jinx is days away from premiering on HBO. Events are captured in real time, revealing themselves like elements in a thriller.
