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Resurrections, Do-Overs, And Second Lives: A 2015 Poetry Preview

3:23pm January 20, 2015

After the troubles of 2014, critic Craig Morgan Teicher offers up a full shelf of poetry for a brand new year — offering no solutions, but full of ambivalence and precision, balm and fire.

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Exclusive First Read: Scott McCloud's 'The Sculptor'

2:35pm January 20, 2015

by NPR Staff

Understanding Comics creator Scott McCloud is sometimes called the "Aristotle of comics" for his analysis of the medium. The Sculptor, a meditation on love, art and death, is his first graphic novel.

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'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Debuts In Slot Vacated By Stephen Colbert

2:02pm January 20, 2015

by David Bianculli

On Monday night, Comedy Central premiered former Daily Show correspondent Larry Wilmore's new show. While Wilmore's sarcastic comments on clips were funny, the round-table discussion didn't sparkle.

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'Whipping Boy' Is Part Memoir, Part Crime Thriller

12:03pm January 20, 2015

by Jason Heller

Allen Kurzweil's new book Whipping Boy starts out as the story of his obsessive 40-year search for the boy who bullied him at boarding school — but it becomes something much deeper and stranger.

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Book Club: Hector Tobar Answers Your Questions About 'Deep Down Dark'

11:50am January 20, 2015

by NPR Staff

Tobar says it was a "great honor" to interview the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days in 2010. They lived "one of the great adventure stories of the 21st century," he says.

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A trader stands outside the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 31, 2012.

Markets May Stumble Or Skyrocket, But This Economist Says Hold On Tight

11:00am January 20, 2015

by NPR Staff

It's been more than four decades since Burton Malkiel published A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Eleven editions later, Malkiel hasn't wavered in his mantra of patience and broad investing.

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Dmitry Sitkovetsky Performs the Great Violin Concerto No. 1 by Shostakovich

8:47am January 20, 2015

by David Ford

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Brooklyn Mack and Misty Copeland will dance the lead roles in the Washington Ballet's spring production of Swan Lake.

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A Rare Bird: After 120 Years, Audiences Still Flock To 'Swan Lake'

8:39am January 20, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Despite being long, convoluted and sometimes sleep-inducing, Swan Lake is a reliable ticket-seller for dance companies. The version most often performed today premiered in Russia in 1895.

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David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King in the new movie Selma.

A Vital Chapter Of American History On Film In 'Selma'

9:20pm January 19, 2015

by NPR Staff

Director Ava DuVernay speaks to NPR's Michele Norris about making Selma, a searing depiction of the battle for voting rights — and the first major movie about the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Missi Pyle plays cable TV host Ellen Abbott, a character that Gone Girl director David Fincher loosely based on Grace.

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Nancy Grace Says 'Gone Girl' Satire Was Flattering, Made Her Laugh Out Loud

9:13pm January 19, 2015

by David Folkenflik

Gone Girl fictionalizes the controversial cable news star. "I did not go into this to win a popularity contest," says Grace, host of a true crimes and current affairs show on HLN.

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