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John Powers celebrates the books, shows and performances that stayed with him, including Miranda July’s novel All Fours, Interior Chinatown on Netflix and an iconic Olympic moment with Simone Biles.

The Grammy Award-winning singer says working with a vocal coach “honestly changed my life.” Eilish and her brother/collaborator Finneas talk about their new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.

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Movies are scored by Hans Zimmer. Films are scored by someone who has said, at least once, “I don’t feel challenged by Hans Zimmer’s work.”

Every year, the National Film Registry picks 25 movies to be preserved for posterity by the Library of Congress. This year’s crop also includes Beverly Hills Cop, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and more.

It’s the holiday season. The time of year when many of us go back home to see our families. But this year, a lot of people aren’t going home, and maybe haven’t been back in a long time. 27% of Americans are estranged from at least one family member, and the term “no contact” is increasingly being used to describe estrangement between adult children and their parents. But is estrangement happening more often, or are we just more open to talking about it? And is our culture around family shifting? Host Brittany Luse sits down with culture journalist Kui Mwai and Whitney Goodman, licensed marriage and family therapist and the host of the Calling Home podcast, to find out.

On this week’s “My Unsung Hero” from Hidden Brain, Caroline Davis was doing a home improvement project that required her to haul about 1,500 pounds of gravel. Someone stepped in to help.

The year in pop pivoted around a trio of artists — Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan — whose music hinged upon assertions of creative ambition and admissions of romantic weakness.

“I didn’t want to brag,” the Malaysian-born comic says. “I just wanted to do the work.” Chieng now costars in the series Interior Chinatown, and has a new Netflix comedy special, Love to Hate It.

Jackson made a cameo in the romantic comedy musical & Juliet on Saturday night. She told NPR: “I got a call, and someone said, ‘We heard that this was your lifelong dream.’ And it is.”

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The year is coming to a close, which can bring a lot of reflection. What went great and what might have gone sideways? Every year we learn lessons on what to improve, what are some of yours?

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