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Pity the poor large language model!

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.”

NPR’s Star Wars nerds talk about whether the franchise still has the juice, as ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ hits the cinemas.

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.

(Image credit: David Handschuh)

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.

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.

(Image credit: Mahnaz Ebrahimi|January 2026)

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.

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.

On his birthday, Tad’s best friend Vlad eats the very last slice of cake. Tad is mad so Tad kicks Vlad, kicking off a chain of kicks that travels around the world.

The Toy Story squad takes on a tablet, the Minions take on Hollywood and Christopher Nolan takes on a Greek epic.