Month: May 2025

This week, special guest Nathan Lane joins panelists Shantira Jackson, Luke Burbank, and Roy Blount, Jr.

Producer Vivien Schütz presents the story of Gina Velasquez, who progressively lost her vision due to an HIV/AIDS diagnosis decades ago.

Crumb’s comics were staples of 1960s counterculture. He’s now the subject of a new biography. Crumb spoke to Fresh Air in 2005, and again, with his wife, fellow comic Aline Kominsky Crumb, in 2007.

Thunderbolts* is unapologetically formulaic. And yet, Florence Pugh is terrific; the action is coherent; and the character dynamics strike the right balance of earnest sincerity and glib humor.

Ugh, I wish I had binoculars to see if one of them is Hitler!

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Craig Thompson, author of the award-winning graphic memoir Blankets returns with its spiritual successor. It’s a look at his childhood growing up on ginseng farms, and the intricate balance of the global ginseng trade.

NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book “Washing My Mother’s Body” where she explores the complexity of a daughter’s grief as she reflects on her mother’s life.

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Jean Grae is back on the show! The interdisciplinary artist just wrote a collection of personal essays called In My Remaining Years. She joins us to talk about the new book, why she distanced herself from rapping, her upbringing and much more.

When Amanda Hess learned her unborn child had a genetic condition, she turned to the internet — but didn’t find reassurance. “My relationship with technology became so much more intense,” she says.

When do compromises turn into full-blown capitulation? Daniel Kehlmann’s new novel draws on the true story of German film director G.W. Pabst.