RJ Cutler Honors John Belushi In His New Documentary
NPR's Scott Simon talks to filmmaker RJ Cutler about his new documentary called Belushi, on the life of comedian John Belushi.
Arts & Life
'These Violent Delights' Transports Romeo And Juliet To 1920s Shanghai
Chloe Gong's new novel has some of the important aspects of Shakespeare's famous tragedy — but more than anything else, it's a rich portrait of a time and place not often seen in literature.
Foreign Cartoon Characters
Orange is the New Black's Alysia Reiner and Beth Dover listen to clips of cartoons dubbed over with non-English dialogue. ¡Ay, caramba!
Dolly's Dolls
Jonathan Coulton plays songs by Dolly Parton re-written to be about actual dolls. Orange is the New Black's Alysia Reiner and Beth Dover prove they know their dolls and Dollys.
Hooked On Lyrics II
Late Night with Seth Meyers' Karen Chee returns to Ask Me Another with illustrator Jonny Sun to identify songs lyrics read by kids born after the songs were released.
Rachel Bloom: I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom joins to talk about her new book I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, and plays a game where Ray Bradbury stories are turned into amusement park rides!
Check-In: Video Games
Jonathan Coulton's been playing The Last Of Us Part II, which puts players in a post-apocalyptic world of isolation and disease. It must be nice to be able to escape reality like that.
'Small Axe': A Searing Portrait Of Racism And A Community's Will To Survive
Steve McQueen's powerful anthology consists of five films, each telling a different story about the experiences of Black men and women in London's West Indian community.
'Oak Flat' Tells The Story Of An Apache Tribe Fighting To Save Its Land From Mining
Artist and writer Lauren Redniss mixes art, design, and rigorous research with a prose style that is at once assertive, journalistic and poetic to create a book like no other.
We Trace Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish Back To Its Horseradishy Roots
This pandemic year, we need traditions more than ever, so we travel back to 1961, when Susan Stamberg first tasted her mother-in-law's now (in)famous, Pepto Bismol pink cranberry relish.