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A Critic Takes On Cannes: Highlights (And Lowlights) Of The 2015 Festival

1:24pm May 27, 2015

Critic John Powers returns from the French film festival to talk about this year's new international films. Top among his picks is The Assassin, a martial arts film by director Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

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Librarian Nancy Pearl shares her selections of under-the-radar books that you may have missed.

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Beyond The Best-Sellers: Nancy Pearl Recommends Under-The-Radar Reads

12:17pm May 27, 2015

by Nancy Pearl

NPR's go-to books guru has sent Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep a stack of books — titles she thinks deserve more attention. Here are her fiction picks, to kick off your summer reading.

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A blind visitor to Spain's Prado Museum runs his fingers across a 3-D copy of the Mona Lisa, painted by an apprentice to Leonardo da Vinci.

Do Touch The Artwork At Prado's Exhibit For The Blind

9:38am May 27, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

The renowned Spanish museum has made 3-D copies of some of its most iconic works to allow blind people to feel them.

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Amanda, right, and her cousin Amy in Valdese, N.C., 1990

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Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies At 75

9:27am May 27, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The influential photographer was known mostly for her humanist work.

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Influential Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies At 75

9:27am May 27, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

Mary Ellen Mark's work appeared in such publications as Life and Vanity Fair. Her photo essay on runaway children in Seattle became the basis of Streetwise, an Academy Award-nominated film.

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Winston-Salem Symphony Ends Season With Bruckner and Mahler (and Moody)

8:53am May 27, 2015

by David Ford

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Author Margaret Atwood Contributes Manuscript To Future Library

7:54am May 27, 2015

by Andrew Limbong

As part of the Future Library project, Margaret Atwood's Scribbler Moon will not be read until 2114. Trees, that will be made into paper for that text, were planted last year in Norway.

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David Letterman hosts his final Late Show episode on Wednesday.

Letterman Leaves Late-Night TV With A Near-Perfect Final Show

7:11am May 27, 2015

by Eric Deggans

Late Show host David Letterman said goodbye Wednesday night with his trademark self-deprecating sarcasm. He left as he had arrived: with a hilarious show made on his own terms.

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Prolific Fantasy And Science-Fiction Writer Tanith Lee Has Died

7:35pm May 26, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Lee wrote dozens of books, including Don't Bite The Sun and Death's Master -- the latter of which was part of her popular Flat Earth series. She was 67.

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt, 1632. Here, Tulp explains musculature matters. Elsewhere, the good doctor was promoting the health virtues of tea.

Tea Tuesdays: How Tea + Sugar Reshaped The British Empire

6:25pm May 26, 2015

by Maria Godoy

When tea met sugar, they formed a power couple that altered the course of history. It was a marriage shaped by fashion, health fads and global economics. And it doomed millions of Africans to slavery.