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In McEwan's Latest, The 'Machine' Is Too Much Like You

7:00am April 23, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Ian McEwan imagines an alternate, technologically-advanced 1982 England in his new novel, in which the development of lifelike, artificially intelligent cyborgs leads to some uncomfortable questions.

Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) in his cups (well, goblets, technically) on Game of Thrones.

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'Game Of Thrones' Season 8, Episode 2: 'Think Back To Where We Started'

9:53am April 22, 2019

by Glen Weldon

On the eve of the biggest battle yet, the series pauses for an episode that delivers old-school Game of Thrones thrills: characters talking in rooms — including a milestone Jaime/Brienne moment.

In Ramy, comedian Ramy Youssef plays a character based on his own experiences growing up as a Muslim and first-generation American in New Jersey.

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'Ramy' Is About One Millennial American Muslim — And Everyone's Racist Uncles

5:35pm April 21, 2019

by Sacha Pfeiffer

A new TV series from the comedian Ramy Youssef — based on his own experience growing up as an Egyptian American in New Jersey — is trying out some different first-generation narratives.

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From 'Little House' to Libertarianism: Rose Wilder Lane's Troublemaking Life

10:00am April 21, 2019

by Etelka Lehoczky

Cartoonist Peter Bagge takes on the life of another independent woman in Credo, his biography of pioneering libertarian Rose Wilder Lane (also known for being the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder).

Suranne Jones stars as Anne Lister — sometimes called the first modern lesbian — in Gentleman Jack.

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'Gentleman Jack' Swaggers Off The Page And Onto The Screen

8:24am April 21, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

A new HBO show takes on the life of Anne Lister, a real-life British landowner of the 1830s whose voluminous coded diaries detailed her extensive — and sometimes open — love affairs with women.

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Missed Connections: 1969 Humanitarian Trip To Africa

8:24am April 21, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

In our latest "Missed Connections," Helen Chapple, Saul Blair and Graham Hinton reunite to talk about how a humanitarian trip to Africa 50 years ago changed the trajectory of their lives.

Flowers Over the Inferno, by Ilaria Tuti.

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'Flowers Over The Inferno' Has A Tantalizing Weirdness

7:00am April 21, 2019

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Ilaria Tuti's crime thriller, set in the mountains of northern Italy, stars a classic odd couple of cops: A gruff, aging, unhealthy veteran detective and her young whippersnapper of a partner.

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, by Anna Merlan

'Republic Of Lies' Explores The Fixation With Conspiracy Theories

10:01am April 20, 2019

by Martha Anne Toll

Author Anna Merlan's recitations are chilling, as are her warnings that fringe beliefs tend to go mainstream — and how their rise is seen against a resurgence in nationalism and white supremacy.

L-R: Dancers Reid Bartelme, David Norsworthy and Sara Mearns perform in the Merce Cunningham centennial tribute Night of 100 Solos at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. The staging of the event often saw multiple dancers performing independent solo ro

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100 Dances For 100 Years Of Merce Cunningham

7:13am April 20, 2019

by Jeff Lunden

To celebrate the centennial of the modern-dance pioneer's birth, dancers at theaters in London, New York and Los Angeles performed a total of 100 solos that the master choreographed.

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Iconic Helvetica Font Gets First Redesign In Decades

7:13am April 20, 2019

Charles Nix, Mitch Goldstein, and Sarah Hyndman talk to NPR's Scott Simon about a recent face-lift to the typeface Helvetica, which recently got its first redesign in 35 years.