Fresh Air Weekend: Tilda Swinton; Adrien Brody
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.
A Poetry Reading: 'To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like A Death'
Fresh Air's classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz recently published a poem about friendship and loss on Poets.org.
Box Set Illustrates Clifford Jordan's Impeccable Taste In Musicians
Starting in the late 1960s, the jazz saxophonist produced a series of recordings that came out on the musicians-owned Strata-East label. Those seven albums are now collected in a box set.
Fresh Air Remembers Surgeon And 'How We Die' Author Sherwin Nuland
Nuland's book won a National Book Award and impacted the national debate about end-of-life care. He died on Monday at 83. Nuland spoke to Fresh Air in 1994.
How 4 Inmates Launched A Statewide Hunger Strike From Solitary
The California convicts overcame the extreme isolation of their imprisonment to organize a 30,000-prisoner-strong movement. Their goal? To end long-term incarceration in solitary confinement.
