Month: September 2025

With 23 nominations and nine Creative Arts Emmys already, Seth Rogen’s Apple TV+ satire, The Studio, heads into Sunday’s Primetime Emmys lampooning its own industry.

Rom-coms, heist flicks, a sports/horror mashup, a pair of Broadway musicals, a biopic of The Boss, festival award winners and lots of showbiz sagas — here’s what NPR critics are watching this fall.

Patrick Ryan’s novel focuses on two married couples and stretches from pre-WWII to the close of the 20th century, capturing both the sweep of history and the mundane particularity of everyday life.

Before 2026’s midterms, President Trump wants to ban mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines, and change voting rules. Legal expert Richard Hasen discusses the future of free and fair elections.

Beverly Cleary’s fictional third grader with an adopted dog named Ribsy made his debut in 1950. Cleary was praised for writing simple, humorous stories that kids wanted to read.

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Emma Stone, Ava DuVernay and Gael Garcia Bernal are among more than 2,000 who signed the petition.

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On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don’t talk about. Author Elizabeth Gilbert opens up about trying to understand that she wasn’t a bad person.

This past summer’s box office was sluggish, but over the weekend, Hollywood found help in the form of the devil. The Conjuring: Last Rites ended up having the top horror movie opening of all time.