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• Through loss, Jesmyn Ward will always return to the word

  Jesmyn Ward  learned the term "respair" — the recovery of hope after despair — in 2020, shortly after her partner died suddenly. Her new book, ‘On Witness and Respair,’ is an essay collection on grief, motherhood and survival. She spoke...

  19 mei 2026 2692 sec.

• Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run

  "From my very first memories, I knew that the FBI was chasing us," Zayd Ayers Dohrn says. "My parents tried to explain it in terms [like] we were like Robin Hood or we were like the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars. So I knew in the way a...

  18 mei 2026 2652 sec.

• Best Of: Boots Riley / Will Sharpe

  Boots Riley talks about his new film, ‘I Love Boosters.' It stars Keke Palmer as the leader of a crew of women shoplifters who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to people who can't afford retail. Riley says he thinks of...

  16 mei 2026 2892 sec.

• Remembering Philip Caputo, who wrote an unflinching Vietnam War memoir

  Philip Caputo wrote the 1977 acclaimed and unflinching memoir ‘A Rumor of War,’ about leading a Marine platoon during the Vietnam War. It taught him a painful truth. “I had discovered that I had a capacity to be violent and dark in my...

  15 mei 2026 2806 sec.

• How Trump increased China's global power

  Former national security official Rush Doshi says President Trump’s 2025 sky-high tariffs on Chinese goods sparked a clash in which China prevailed. Doshi spoke with Dave Davies about  the current state of U.S.-China relations and...

  14 mei 2026 2770 sec.

• Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you

  Boots Riley’s new film is called ‘I Love Boosters,’ and it stars Keke Palmer as the leader of a crew of women shoplifters in the Bay Area who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to people who can't afford retail. 20 years...

  13 mei 2026 2731 sec.

• Inside a journalist’s year of using AI for (almost) everything

  Tech writer Joanna Stern used AI to read medical results, respond to texts and serve as her therapist. She says her emotional connection to it was unsettling. Her new book is ‘I Am Not a Robot.’ She spoke with Terry Gross. Also, TV...

  12 mei 2026 2744 sec.

• Will Sharpe imagines Mozart's day-to-day in 'Amadeus'

  Sharpe played a newly rich tech bro on vacation in Italy the second season of ‘The White Lotus.’ Now he's starring as Mozart, a musical genius who struggles to "read the room" in the new STARZ limited TV series ‘Amadeus.’ He spoke with...

  11 mei 2026 2766 sec.

• Best Of: Novelist Douglas Stuart / ‘Half Man’ Actor Richard Gadd

  Like the main character in his Booker Prize-winning novel 'Shuggie Bain,' writer Douglas Stuart grew up in Glasgow, working class, queer, and with a mother addicted to alcohol. His first career was in fashion, designing underwear for...

  9 mei 2026 2866 sec.

• Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, from ‘RENT’ to ‘Hamilton’

  Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller played a key role in the production of RENT, Hamilton, In the Heights, Avenue Q, and the revival of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd that starred Josh Groban. His memoir traced his path from ‘Theater Kid’ to...

  8 mei 2026 2763 sec.

• Nathan Lane is being tested (and he loves it)

  Nathan Lane just received a Tony nomination for his starring role as Willy Loman in ‘Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.’ He’s a veteran of the stage – often in comedic and musical roles. But in the role of Loman, which he does eight...

  7 mei 2026 2678 sec.

• How Silicon Valley has profited by aligning with MAGA

  Atlantic writer George Packer discusses how tech venture capitalists, who are heavily invested in AI and cryptocurrency, aligned with Trump and influenced policies related to their own investments.  Also, David Bianculli reviews the...

  6 mei 2026 2663 sec.