Latest Episodes
-
NPR correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up in a white evangelical church that taught her to never question her faith. She was later surprised by the community's overwhelming support for Donald Trump.Listen • 36:41 -
Comic Slate can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. Her new stand-up special is Seasoned Professional. Julio Torres spins immigration stress into satire in Problemista.Listen • 47:12
-
Adelle Waldman's novel is a workplace ensemble set in a Costco-like store. But, because Help Wanted is a group portrait, it tends to visit, rather than settle in with, its working class characters.Listen • 5:31
-
The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. And when she wants her 3-year-old daughter to open up, she talks to her in the voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.Listen • 44:41
-
The comic, actor and filmmaker came to the U.S. from El Salvador in his 20s. "This movie deals with the problem of immigration, but I think of it as a very silly, happy and joyful movie," he says.Listen • 44:10
-
New Yorker writer Evan Osnos explains how Biden's campaign strategy has changed from four years ago. Maureen Corrigan reviews Grief is for People. Lucy Santos' new memoir is I Heard Her Call My Name.Listen • 46:50
-
Rod Nordland was diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most lethal form of brain cancer, in 2019. He writes about facing mortality from war and cancer in his new memoir, Waiting for the Monsoon.Listen • 30:09
-
Tricia Romano's The Freaks Came Out To Write chronicles the passion and talent that made a great American newspaper — and the forces that killed it.Listen • 8:38
-
Villeneuve remembers storyboarding Dune as a child. Ken Tucker reviews's Mary Timony's Untame the Tiger. Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath reflects on when forgetting is normal, and when it's worrisome.Listen • 47:21
-
Dune: Part Two is a more exciting and eventful journey than Dune: Part One. But even here, the high points are over too soon, and the movie quickly moves on.Listen • 7:34
