Month: August 2022

Melanie Lynskey is up for an Emmy for her leading role in the Showtime series about a girls’ soccer team who go down in a plane crash in 1996, and have to survive in the wilderness for over a year.

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One of pop music’s main advocates of normalizing mental health issues, Lauv released a new album on Friday; it’s called All 4 Nothing.

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Set in Oklahoma’s Native American territory, the show blends satire, pathos and tribal lore — not to mention American Indians’ tragic history — into a series that is fresh, funny and heartfelt.

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The Horniman Museum promised to repatriate a trove of artifacts, which include objects known as Benin bronzes, looted from West Africa during a British military invasion in 1897.

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After releasing her album Renaissance, Beyoncé received backlash for the song, “Heated.” She used a word that some consider a slur towards people with disabilities — and has since changed the lyrics.

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New cartoons from the magazine.

NPR’s Alina Selyukh talks with Julie Ha, co-director of the documentary “Free Chol Soo Lee,” about a Korean-American man’s arrest for a murder he did not commit, and the effort to help him.

The proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster will likely change things for authors and readers – for better or worse

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We asked NPR readers and listeners to share what they’re really into and why it brings them joy. If you need a new hobby, here are a few unconventional ideas.

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Situations involving meanies at the workplace, on the playground, and in the comments section.