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Hop in: Richard Ford and Lorrie Moore offer unforgettable summer road trips

Ford brings his Frank Bascombe saga to an end in Be Mine, while Moore weaves together a fragmentary Civil War plot with an off-kilter vision of the afterlife in I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home.

June 27, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Thinking she had just months to live, Laura Dern's mother 'spilled the beans'

Actor Laura Dern and her mother Diane Ladd have always shared a profession. But when Ladd was diagnosed with lung disease, the two started sharing so much more. Their new book is Honey, Baby, Mine.

June 26, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Education

Facing book bans and restrictions on lessons, teachers are scared and self-censoring

Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson explains how new laws about teaching race, racism, gender identity and sexuality have created new fears and burdens in schools and classrooms.

June 22, 2023
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  • Dave Davies

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  • Book Reviews

Two new novels illustrate just how hard it is to find a foothold in America

Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans is a sexually-explicit, cynical novel about young people striving. Such Kindness, by Andre Dubus III, grapples with injury, addiction, masculinity and loneliness.

June 21, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
GPB News NPR

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  • Obituaries

Remembering acclaimed editor Robert Gottlieb

Gottlieb, who died June 14 at 92, edited Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John le Carré and, for more than 50 years, Robert Caro. We listen back to an interview with Gottlieb from just a few months ago.

June 21, 2023
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

Pain and pleasure do the tango in the engrossing new novel 'Kairos'

A young student in East Berlin falls in love with a much older writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a love story and a rich portrait of people watching their country disappear.

June 20, 2023
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  • John Powers
In episode "Demon 79" an employee at a department store (Anjana Vasan) is visited by an apprentice demon (Paapa Essiedu).

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5 new 'Black Mirror' episodes have dropped — and there's not a dud in the bunch

These are the first new Black Mirror episodes since before the pandemic. The show continues to be among the best anthology TV series ever made.

June 17, 2023
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  • David Bianculli
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  • Movie Reviews

Wes Anderson has outdone himself with 'Asteroid City'

Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks star in this play-within-a-TV-show-within-a-movie that takes place in a small 1950s desert town that's hosting an astronomy convention for kids.

June 16, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
GPB News NPR

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Flawed chatbot or threat to society? Both? We explore the risks and benefits of AI

Artificial intelligence experts recently signed an open letter warning that AI could destroy humanity. New York Times reporter Cade Metz explains why we are at a turning point with this technology.

June 15, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
<em>Endeavour</em> — a prequel to the <em>Inspector Morse</em> series — ran for nearly a decade. Its ninth and final season is airing on PBS's MASTERPIECE Mystery! Above, Shaun Evans as Endeavour Morse

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In its ninth and final season, 'Endeavour' fulfills its mission to 'Inspector Morse'

Just as Better Call Saul is, in some ways, more interesting than Breaking Bad, so Endeavour offers more emotional richness than the series that inspired it.

June 14, 2023
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  • John Powers
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

'An Amerikan Family' traces the legacy of Tupac Shakur's influential family

The late rapper — who was killed at 25 in 1996 — would have turned 52 this year. Santi Elijah Holley's new book follows the Shakur family tree and their work in the Black Liberation Movement.

June 14, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Author Interviews

The Catholic Church profited from slavery — 'The 272' explains how

"You don't hear about enslaved people at Mass or in Sunday school," says Rachel Swarns. Her new book tells the story of 272 enslaved people sold in 1838 to help save what is now Georgetown University.

June 13, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Central Park birder Christian Cooper on being 'a Black man in the natural world'

Cooper was birdwatching in Central Park in 2020 when a white woman falsely accused him of threatening her. His book chronicles life as a Black birder, gay activist and Marvel comics writer and editor.

June 12, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Lord Norman Foster sits for a portrait on the 42nd floor of JPMorgan's current headquarters. Lord Foster is the architect for a new 60-story building the bank is building. He describes the new structure as a "a breathing building" because of the increased focus on air circulation.

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  • Business

How two big Wall Street banks are rethinking the office for a post-pandemic future

From more air circulation to well stacked pantries, JPMorgan Chase and BNP Paribas are seeking to make the office a draw at a time when work-from-home is becoming commonplace.

June 12, 2023
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  • David Gura
Teo Yoo and Greta Lee star as Hae Sung and Nora, childhood sweethearts who reconnect decades later in <em>Past Lives.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

Across continents and decades, 'Past Lives' is the most affecting love story in ages

Two childhood sweethearts reconnect decades later in this thoughtful film. You've seen the more conventional romantic-triangle version of this story — but there are no heroes and no villains here.

June 09, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
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