Month: April 2025

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

How did I get inside my body?

President Trump wants European countries to start buying U.S. chicken and eggs. But the U.K. and E.U. think American poultry is gross and chemically washed. Turns out, chlorine isn’t really the issue.

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Ashley Blas visited her mother’s grave for the first time since the funeral. The driver who took her noticed grass covering part of the stone. In a full suit, he knelt down and cleaned the gravestone.

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“I find myself wishing she didn’t have him,” writes an NPR listener of his new girlfriend’s dog. Podcasters Haley Nahman and Danny Nelson weigh in.

Weinstein’s New York conviction was overturned last year. The new trial will retry the case alongside a brand new charge.

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Josh Gad joins us to talk about his new memoir In Gad We Trust: A Tell Some. He also gets into what life was like growing up in South Florida, the one time he refuses to use his Olaf voice and winning three national titles in teen oratory competitions.

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Kind is the announcer and host sidekick on the Netflix show Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney. “I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. You must understand — it’s anarchy,” he says of the show.

Lamar’s duet with SZA samples Luther Vandross’ 1982 hit “If This World Were Mine.” The song was written by Marvin Gaye, who himself recorded it in 1967 as a duet with Tammi Terrell.

Jalapeño and Cheddar: This is not a bagel. This is what you order to signal to the guy at the counter that you need him to call a cop.