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Take A Dark Ride On The 'Night Boat To Tangier'

10:00am September 20, 2019

by Michael Schaub

In Kevin Barry's grim but compassionate new novel, two weary Irish ex-crooks sit waiting in a run-down Spanish ferry terminal, waiting for one man's estranged daughter who may or may not show up.

Olympia Della Flora: Can Small Classroom Tweaks Help Kids Better Cope With Emotions?

9:22am September 20, 2019

by NPR/TED Staff

After months of struggling with one particularly challenging elementary school student, principal Olympia Della Flora realized it was the classroom setting that needed to change ... not the child.

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Liz Kleinrock: How Can We Broach Hard Conversations In The Classroom?

9:22am September 20, 2019

by NPR/TED Staff

When one of Liz Kleinrock's fourth grade students made a cringeworthy comment about race, rather than change the subject, she chose to turn the moment into a teachable one — and start a conversation.

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Thomas Curran: How Can We Teach Kids To Accept Imperfection?

9:22am September 20, 2019

by NPR/TED Staff

Many students feel unrelenting pressure to be ... perfect. Social psychologist Thomas Curran warns that striving for perfectionism isn't just impossible — it's also dangerous to children's health.

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Jacqueline Woodson: What Is The Hidden Power Of Slow Reading?

9:22am September 20, 2019

by NPR/TED Staff

Novelist Jacqueline Woodson is a slow reader. Taking her time lets her savor each word brings her closer to each story, and it lets her pay respect to her ancestors who weren't allowed to read.

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'Heaven, My Home' Is A Complicated Place

7:00am September 20, 2019

by Bethanne Patrick

Attica Locke returns to the world of Highway 59 in Heaven, My Home, which finds Texas Ranger Darren Mathews dealing with the disappearance of the young son of an imprisoned white supremacist leader.

Jim Carter returns as Charles Carson for a royal visit in Downton Abbey.

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In The 'Downton Abbey' Film, A Royal Visit Proves Rather A Spot Of Bother

8:01pm September 19, 2019

by Glen Weldon

The new film is "less a victory lap than a cakewalk." Everything about the TV series — those aspects you loved, and those you didn't — is reproduced here with astonishing fidelity.

More like DAD Astra am I right? Brad Pitt stars as astronaut Roy McBride chasing the ghost of his father across an unforgiving solar system in Ad Astra.

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'Ad Astra' Soars

6:52pm September 19, 2019

by Chris Klimek

Distance — both interplanetary and emotional — is the subject of James Gray's "stirring sci-fi epic" that stars Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.

Toni Servillo stars in Paolo Sorrentino's film, which was recut from a two-part Italian TV series about the decadent life of Silvio Berlusconi.

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'Loro': Sorrentino's Portrait Of Berlusconi As A Once-Powerful Lion In Winter

5:01pm September 19, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

This "stylish but overloaded satire is less sober narrative than drunken tone poem — a buzzing, throbbing attempt to simulate" what it was like inside the mogul-turned-prime-minister's circle.

Roy Cohn, pictured here sitting on a senate investigation subcommittee, is remembered as a master political manipulator in Where's My Roy Cohn?

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Documentary 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' Suggests He's Closer Than You Think

5:00pm September 19, 2019

by Ella Taylor

Matt Tyrnaeur's documentary posits that Cohn, a notoriously ruthless and amoral political operative, set the ground rules by which today's politics play out.