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Author: Juliana Castro Varón
After Stephen Colbert’s viral talk show parody, CBS backs down from copyright action
CBS and Paramount backed away from copyright challenges to limit distribution of Stephen Colbert’s appearance on a Michigan cable access show. He ended his run as host of “The Late Show” on Thursday.
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Author: Brian Mann
A Vindication of the Rights of L.L.M.s
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Author: Cora Frazier
In the ‘biggest book giveaway in history’ WWII soldiers received pocket-sized reads
The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen’s pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: “Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas.”
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Author: Maureen Corrigan
Cineplexity: The state of Star Wars
NPR’s Star Wars nerds talk about whether the franchise still has the juice, as ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ hits the cinemas.
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Author: Glen Weldon
Fresh Air Weekend: Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s childhood on the run; Writer Jesmyn Ward
Dohrn’s parents helped found the Weather Underground. His memoir is Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young. Ward learned the term “respair” — the recovery of hope after despair — during the pandemic.
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Cannes closes without a big American Hollywood presence
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to Alison Willmore, a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture, about the highlights of this year’s Cannes Film Festival in France.
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Author: Ayesha Rascoe
Mind-bending photos by anonymous cousins show the pain and dreams of Afghan women
The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on display at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, New York.
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Author: Diane Cole
A Mississippi warehouse full of comic books is at the center of a legal battle
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Bloomberg reporter Jonathan Randles about a legal battle that’s left over 8 million comic books sitting in a Mississippi warehouse.
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Author: Ayesha Rascoe
Visual impairment doesn’t keep these birders out of the hobby
The phrase “bird watching” does not take in the full range of people who love searching for wild birds. We meet a few of the many visually impaired birders who use their ears.
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Author: Nancy Eve Cohen
