Category: Arts & Entertainment

As long as I’d known her, Laolao had a point-and-shoot camera loaded and ready to record—gardens, meals, new outfits, and visitors.

Harvard professor Namwali Serpell has been teaching Morrison for nearly two decades. Her book, On Morrison is a deep dive into the Nobel winner’s complete body of work — 11 novels, plays and criticism.

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.

I will wear the perfect amount of sunscreen so that I don’t look like clown-faced Mark Zuckerberg on that surfboard or red-faced Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate hearing.

NPR staffers discuss their favorite films that feature spies and espionage.

“I wanted to do this show that didn’t exist when I was a kid,” Hall says of his late-night show. Known for his celebrity roasts, Ross turns inward in his Netflix special, Take a Banana for the Ride.

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The Bollywood legend was one of the world’s most recorded artists — who, by her own reckoning, made more than 12,000 songs.

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Ayesha Rascoe unpacks an analog bag — a tote filled with screen-free activities — curated by Weekend Edition staff.

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As Tax Day approaches, Goldfish offers sneaky snacking parents a special “Snack Tax” refund.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KUT listener Nell Newton and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.