Arts & Life

Festivalgoers browse for books during the Miami Book Fair International. PBS will provide live coverage of the fair's events over the course of three days this year.

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Book News: PBS Promises 'Olympic-Style' Coverage Of Miami Book Fair

10:08am November 10, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

The network will feature the massive festival, which boasts hundreds of authors and countless more attendees, in a live webcast. Across the Atlantic, The Hunger Games is getting a theater adaptation.

Robert Lee Watt was a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than three decades.

'The Black Horn': Blowing Past Classical Music's Color Barriers

9:44am November 10, 2014

by NPR Staff

Robert Lee Watt, the first black French horn player to join a major U.S. symphony, spent 37 years with the LA Philharmonic. He faced a lot of resistance along the way, as his new memoir recounts.

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Eddie Redmayne plays astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

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In 'The Theory Of Everything,' Science Takes A Back Seat

8:48am November 10, 2014

by Mark Jenkins

The new Stephen Hawking biographical film The Theory Of Everything takes such a starry-eyed view of love and life that it seems to be from another era.

Sgt. Jeffords (Terry Crews, L), Capt. Holt (Andre Braugher, C) and Det. Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz, R) try and figure out why Amy is late in Sunday night's Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

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'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Hits A Home Run With The Stupendous Andre Braugher

8:41am November 10, 2014

by Linda Holmes

Sunday night's Brooklyn Nine-Nine gave star Andre Braugher a moment of pure comedic joy-genius.

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Richard III: Not Such A Bad Guy After All?

11:20pm November 09, 2014

by NPR Staff

Archaeologist Mike Pitts' new book, Digging for Richard III, recounts the search for the king's skeleton — and sheds new light on a ruler who's often seen as one of history's great villains.

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Remembering Hedy Lamarr: Actress, Weapons Systems Developer

6:21pm November 09, 2014

Renaissance woman Hedy Lamarr was born on this day 100 years ago. Not only was she a major screen actress, she was also an inventor. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates speaks with Lamarr biographer Richard Rhodes.

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'Occupy The Farm': In Berkeley, The Revolution Will Be Irrigated

4:25pm November 09, 2014

by Allison Aubrey

A new documentary film follows protesters who occupied a research farm owned by the University of California. The film has become a symbol of the subversive possibilities of urban farming.

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Imagining Lives That Might Have Happened In 'End Of Days'

12:13pm November 09, 2014

by NPR Staff

German author Jenny Erpenbeck's new novel grapples with the classic question: What if? What if one choice, one event goes differently, and the whole course of your life changes?

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Will Self's 'Shark' Swims In A Chaotic Sea

5:41am November 09, 2014

by J.P. O'Malley

Featuring the same time frame and some of the same characters as his last novel, Umbrella, Shark continues Self's modernist exploration of the human psyche and the violence done by modern society.

A black hole might be the key to humankind's future in Interstellar.

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Tripping Into A Black Hole In This Week's Movies

8:43pm November 08, 2014

by Bob Mondello

NPR film critic Bob Mondello gets blinded by science this week at the movies, what with The Theory of Everything, Interstellar, Big Hero 6 and some really cool black holes.

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