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Edward Carey’s new novel is about the life of wax museum pioneer Madame Tussaud — but it’s also about the French Revolution, about humans, bodies, art and loneliness, and it’s deeply, painfully sad.
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This week, in honor of Wait Wait‘s 20th birthday, we will subject two public radio legends to terrible puns about their own names.
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McCarthy plays a caustic literary forger in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a reissue of Amarcord Nino Rota. Filmmaker Dano discusses his new film Wildlife.
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The great Boston Celtics point guard and his fellow Hall of Fame center won six NBA titles together — in the shadow of widespread racism. Gary Pomerantz documents that history in The Last Pass.
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In anticipation of Halloween, NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with writer A.J. Jacobs about instances throughout history of people who just couldn’t stay dead.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s new book kicks off with a murder on the moon — which sounds exciting, but Red Moon spends too much time wandering off on digressions about science, technology and politics.
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