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'A Shout In The Ruins' Probes The Lasting Infections Of War And Slavery

7:00am May 16, 2018

by Michael Schaub

Kevin Powers' bleak, stunning new book is set in both the 1950s and the Civil War era. It's an intricately plotted look at the ways violence can shape a nation in ways that may not be recoverable.

Never tell him the odds: L3-37 (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) and Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover) in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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'Solo' Makes The Jump To Light-Speed ... Eventually

5:00pm May 15, 2018

by Glen Weldon

The odds of successfully telling the origin story of the Star Wars trilogy's lovable rogue are approximately 3,720 to 1. After a sluggish start, Solo: A Star Wars Story beats those odds.

Novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe believed that techniques for fiction and nonfiction should be interchangeable. "The things that work in nonfiction would work in fiction, and vice versa," he said.

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Tom Wolfe, Best-Selling Author And Genre-Breaking Journalist, Dies At 88

2:32pm May 15, 2018

by Tom Vitale

The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff used to give himself a quota of 10 triple-spaced pages per day. He also experimented with literary techniques in his nonfiction.

Michael Pollan is out with a new book about the science behind psychedelics.

'Reluctant Psychonaut' Michael Pollan Embraces The 'New Science' Of Psychedelics

1:17pm May 15, 2018

by Terry Gross

Author Michael Pollan, who experimented with mushrooms, LSD and other psychedelics while researching his latest book, says: "I had an experience that was by turns frightening and ecstatic and weird."

Tom Wolfe, Author Of 'Bonfire Of The Vanities,' Dies At 88

12:38pm May 15, 2018

by Lynn Neary

Best-selling author Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of what came to be called "the new journalism," died at a hospital in New York.

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'Cult X' Asks How Easily You — Yes, You — Might Be Taken In

10:00am May 15, 2018

by Bethanne Patrick

Some of the sex scenes in Fuminori Nakamura's new novel Cult X will disturb you — but that's beside the point, because the book has much more disturbing things to say about groupthink and free will.

A View of the Empire at Sunset, by Caryl Phillips

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'Empire At Sunset' Provides A Mesmerizing View Of Jean Rhys

7:00am May 15, 2018

by Heller McAlpin

Caryl Phillips' new novel, set in the waning years of the British Empire, follows the perpetually alienated Rhys from her birthplace in the West Indies to England and then the Continent.

Ultraviolent super-mercenary Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) references a film that many people will recognize — that's kind of his whole deal — in Deadpool 2.

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Grim 'N' Gritty Is Out, Glib 'N' Smarmy Is In: 'Deadpool 2'

5:00am May 15, 2018

by Glen Weldon

Ryan Reynolds once again assays the role of a deadly mercenary who makes many references to various pop culture properties while disemboweling folk a lot. No fourth wall is safe.

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How The Business Of Buying Canceled TV Show Works

5:34pm May 14, 2018

When Fox announced the cancellation Brooklyn Nine-Nine, fans rioted online, but were met with good news when NBC picked it up. NPR's Ari Shapiro, speaks with Indie Wire's Michael Schneider about the business of buying canceled TV shows.

Actress Margot Kidder is seen here with her Superman co-star Christopher Reeve.

Actress Margot Kidder, Who Played Lois Lane, Dies At 69

4:22pm May 14, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Margot Kidder's acting career spanned decades, from TV series in the late 1960s to seven films in the past five years.