
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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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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The highly anticipated new installment of the popular Red Dead Redemption series, hailed by some reviewers as the most realistic open-world video game ever made, went on sale today. What do you think?
Director Luca Guadagnino follows up last year’s Call Me By Your Name with a “punishing” and “confounding” remake of Dario Argento’s beloved horror film about a dance troupe of witches.
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WASHINGTON—Eric and Donald Trump Jr. reportedly smashed their father’s cell phone Friday to search for Chinese spies, shouting demands that the tiny operatives come out of the receiver with their hands up. “When we heard all these little Chinese guys snuck into our dad’s phone and started listening to all the things…
“It wasn’t like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex,” Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life, told Fresh Air in 2017. “Lou wrote about it … so I felt it was fair game.”
RIYADH—Championing the brutal murder and dismemberment of the journalist as a humanitarian effort, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday reportedly touted the hundreds of Yemeni lives saved by the Saudis’ spending so much time focused on killing Jamal Khashoggi. “I can now confirm that the death of Mr.…