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Fresh Air Weekend: Tilda Swinton; Adrien Brody

5:00am January 11, 2025

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in The Room Next Door. Justin Chang reviews Hard Truths. Brody drew on his family's immigration story for his role in The Brutalist.

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Comic Hari Kondabolu's album Waiting for 2042 is a reference to the year the Census Bureau projects whites will be the minority in the U.S. "Don't worry, white people," he says. "You were a minority when you came to this country. Things seemed to have wor

Fresh Air Weekend: Seth Meyers And Hari Kondabolu

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A Poetry Reading: 'To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like A Death'

Fresh Air's classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz published a poem about friendship and loss on Poets.org.

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Richard Blanco is the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet.

Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco: 'I Finally Felt Like I Was Home'

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Marie Howe is the author of three collections of poetry. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Poet Marie Howe On 'What The Living Do' After Loss

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Tyler Hicks took this photo of a woman sheltering her children on the floor of a cafe at the Westgate Mall during an attack by militants in Nairobi on Sept. 21, 2013. The woman later contacted Hicks and told him she kept her kids quiet and still by singin

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Tyler Hicks Tells The Story Behind His Pulitzer-Winning Nairobi Mall Photos

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Richard Blanco reads his poem "One Today" during President Obama's second inaugural, on Jan. 21.

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Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco: 'I Finally Felt Like I Was Home'

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Seth Meyers anchored Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update with Amy Poehler.

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Seth Meyers' 'Late Night' Challenge: What To Do With His Hands

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Music & Culture

For Jessica Lea Mayfield, Sometimes Sanity Is The Better Option

by Ken Tucker

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In her new book, Forcing the Spring, investigative reporter Jo Becker goes behind the scenes in the fight for marriage equality. Above, Eric Breese of Rochester, N.Y., joins hundreds of others to rally outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments in a

'Forcing The Spring' Tells One Chapter In Story Of Marriage Equality

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For Comic Hari Kondabolu, Explaining The Joke IS The Joke

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According to Dr. Martin Blaser, the overuse of antibiotics has contributed to killing off strains of bacteria that typically live in the gut.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Missing Microbes,' 'The Both,' And Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley'

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On Inside Amy Schumer, the comic (here with Jon Glaser and Adrian Martinez) deploys everything from scripted vignettes to stand-up comedy and man-on-the-street-style interviews.

'Inside Amy Schumer': It's Not Just Sex Stuff

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