Documentary 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' Suggests He's Closer Than You Think
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.
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In 'Obviously,' Comedian Muses About Growing Up In A Small Kentucky Town
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with comedian Akilah Hughes about a collection of short essays in her new book, Obviously.
'Downton Abbey' Movie Brings You Up To Speed With The Crawleys
The Crawleys are back, and the big screen has them this time, in a story that picks up a few years after the TV show ended.
Constructing Jazz Inside Fine Art, And Vice-Versa
The jazz pianist has pulled the curtain off his polymathic abilities, bringing his fine art exhibition — which includes video, installations and performance — home to New York.
Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia
In 2013, Snowden showed journalists thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. intelligence agencies' surveillance efforts. He's been living in Russia ever since. His new book is Permanent Record.
'Coventry' Touches On Gender, Self-Definition In Taking Control Of One's Narrative
In her first essay collection, Rachel Cusk writes like someone who has been burned and has reacted not with self-censorship but with a doubling-down on clarity.
In 'Doxology,' The Comedy Is Never Quite In Tune
Nell Zink is a very funny writer, but the comedy never quite works in her new novel, which follows two aging punks and their daughter, from the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the '80s to D.C. today.
Frank Lloyd Wright, But DIY: A Rare 'Usonian Automatic' House Is For Sale
The famed architect conceived a number of dwellings for the mass market to be made from concrete blocks. The idea never took off. But in New Hampshire, one such building is now hitting the market.
Racial Tensions Complicate The Search For A Missing Child In 'Heaven, My Home'
Attica Locke's new novel centers on a black Texas ranger's effort to find the vanished son of a white supremacist. Heaven, My Home offers an unsettling American spin on a complicated crime story.
'There Isn't Just One Type Of Black,' Says Comedian Nicole Byer
The rising comedy star and host of the Emmy-nominated baking competition Nailed It! has gone to therapy weekly, escaped grief onstage and taught herself to do her own makeup for television.