Month: September 2021

R.C. Sherriff’s recently reissued 1931 novel, which follows a British family on their two-week holiday, is a reflection on how time changes shape in periods like a vacation — or even a pandemic.

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HAGATNA, GUAM—Expressing relief that the effects of the climate crisis were perhaps not as dire as previously thought, the world’s leading marine ecologists announced Monday that rising sea levels over the past century were mostly caused by a clump of hair clogging the drain at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. “We…

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NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Nelson G. Navarrete, co-director of the documentary A La Calle, and Leopoldo Lopez, one of the Venezuelan opposition leaders featured in the film.

Fleck returns to his bluegrass roots on a new album, which is dedicated to Tony Rice and Chick Corea. Mary Roach researched animal misbehaviors for her new book, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.

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It’s important to act startled, even though nothing about the situation is surprising.

Michelle Quach’s immensely lovable YA debut Not Here to Be Liked centers on Eliza, who’s just been done out of her dream job as editor of the high school paper by an unqualified but very charming boy.

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Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for PBS’ Newshour and the host of Washington Week, so we’ll ask her three questions about the week’s washing: laundry.

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Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for defamation. At issue is a line in the show’s final episode that falsely says she hadn’t played against male opponents.

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Scott Simon talks to Justin Chon about his new movie, “Blue Bayou,” which he wrote, stars and directs.

Screenwriter Sarah Burgess focused the new series on three of the women at the center of the scandal. And in the process, gives people a story different from what they think they know.

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