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An Alabama Booksmith Picks 3 Books To Read This Summer

4:35pm August 12, 2016

Jake Reiss, owner of Alabama Booksmith in Homewood, Ala., recommends James McBride's Kill 'Em and Leave, Don Keith's Mattie C.'s Boy and Joshua Hammer's The Bad-Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu.

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From Gladiator Duels To Caesar's Last Words: The Myths Of Ancient Rome

1:32pm August 12, 2016

Historian Mary Beard says many of our popular notions about the empire are based on culture rather than fact. Her new book is called SPQR. Originally broadcast Nov. 30, 2015.

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Robbers And Rangers Collide In 'Hell Or High Water'

1:25pm August 12, 2016

by David Edelstein

Two masked robbers clean out small branches of a Texas bank in David Mackenzie's new neo-Western. Critic David Edelstein calls Hell or High Water a work of "broad scale and deep feeling."

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The New York Review Of Children's Books

10:57am August 12, 2016

Contestants guess the piece of classic children's literature based on imagined hoity-toity reviews.

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Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Part Zwei

10:57am August 12, 2016

The German language has a lot of long, crazily specific words. We give contestants words and their definitions, and they have to figure out: are these real German words, or words we made up?

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Everybody Wants To Rule The World

10:57am August 12, 2016

We took the Tears for Fears hit "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and rewrote it to be about power-hungry fictional characters and organizations.

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Garance Doré: New York Or Paris?

10:57am August 12, 2016

For Doré's special challenge, we read quotes from famous people, and she must guess if they're about Paris, or New York City.

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The Long And The Short Of It

10:57am August 12, 2016

In this game, contestants insert the letter 'E' into a common phrase to turn it into a completely different phrase.

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Ira Sachs and Jennifer Ehle on Ask Me Another.

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Ira Sachs And Jennifer Ehle: Stage And Screen Collide

10:57am August 12, 2016

To celebrate Ehle's two Tony wins and Sachs' cinephilia, we curated a challenge in which the worlds of stage and screen collide.

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Heating Up The Competition

10:57am August 12, 2016

Every answer contains an object that can be found in a kitchen. For example, to "Star of Legally Blonde who won an Academy Award for her role in Walk the Line," you'd say, "Reese WitherSPOON."

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