These Pictures Show French Police Using Tear Gas And Water Cannons On Protesters
One person was arrested Saturday amid clashes in the French capital over rising fuel prices.
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Fresh Air Weekend: The Coen Brothers; Free Climbing Yosemite’s ‘Dawn Wall’
Joel and Ethan Coen pay homage to old Westerns with their new film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson describe their ascent of the southeastern face El Capitan.
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Unseen Forces Menace ‘The Houseguest’
Amparo Dávila is often described as Mexico’s answer to Shirley Jackson, and The Houseguest — her first collection to be translated into English –radiates a sense of unease and calamity.
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An Oral History of Isaac Newton “Discovering” Gravity, as Told by His Contemporaries
Jeremiah Budin humorously imagines what the writer Voltaire, the mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, and the astronomer Edmond Halley thought about Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity.
Royal Intrigue Fuels Eccentric Comedy Of Manners, ‘The Favourite’
Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos finds both pathos and dark comedy in the machinations surrounding England’s Queen Anne in his period dramedy The Favourite.
Meow Wolf: From DIY Art Collective To Moneymaking Company
The art and entertainment company Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, N.M., has had startling success in the past two years. NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with CEO and co-founder Vince Kadlubek about the transition from artist collective to multimillion dollar company.
