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A New Delhi Family Learns To Navigate Wealth After A 'Windfall'

8:06am June 25, 2017

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Diksha Basu's new novel was inspired by the explosion of wealth she saw in 1990s India. She says money is a complex thing, and it takes a while for her characters to see that.

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The Call-In: Your Questions About Making Relationships Last

8:06am June 25, 2017

It's wedding season! For this week's Call-In, Mandy Len Catron, author of the new book How to Fall in Love with Anyone, answers your questions about love and relationships.

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An Ancient Curse Awakens In 'The Suffering Tree'

7:00am June 25, 2017

by Caitlyn Paxson

A family curse, a resurrection and a vengeful witch are at the center of Elle Cosimano's Southern Gothic chiller The Suffering Tree. But the book elides its setting's history of racial violence.

Dr. Vanessa Grubbs and Robert Phillips at their wedding in August 2005. Just a few months earlier, when his kidneys were failing, she gave him one of hers.

'Interlaced Fingers' Traces Roots Of Racial Disparity In Kidney Transplants

6:03pm June 24, 2017

by Michel Martin

When Dr. Vanessa Grubbs fell in love with a man whose kidneys were failing, he'd been waiting for a transplant for years. Her book explores the ways racial inequity is embedded in the system.

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Not My Job: Eddie Izzard Gets Quizzed On King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

11:06am June 24, 2017

We'll ask the comedian three questions about the Australian psychedelic rock band. Izzard has a new book called Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens.

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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, by Anne Helen Petersen

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'Too Fat, Too Slutty' Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women

10:00am June 24, 2017

by Annalisa Quinn

Anne Helen Petersen's new book is a thoughtful consideration of several public women — from Nicki Minaj to Hillary Clinton — who've run up against the invisible expectations our culture has of them.

Christopher Plummer as the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception — a man with the outward trappings of power, who hasn't made a real decision in decades.

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Unconscious Prejudice Meets Real-World Horror In 'The Exception'

8:01am June 24, 2017

by Melissa Block

David Leveaux's new film follows exiled German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II as he realizes that the new Germany of National Socialism has nothing at all in common with the Germany of his memories.

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'The Force' Is Basically 'Game Of Thrones' With Cops — And That's Pretty Great

7:00am June 24, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Don Winslow's new novel is packed with crooked cops and crookeder crooks, all defending their territories and trying to maintain a status quo where everyone earns, everyone eats and no wars break out.

Daniel Day-Lewis, the three-time Oscar winner and incomparable film chameleon announced his retirement from acting.

Imagining Daniel Day-Lewis In A Life Without Acting

5:53am June 24, 2017

by Melissa Block

Daniel Day-Lewis says he is no longer going to act. Weekend Edition guest host Melissa Block remembers an interview she had with him that might shed some light on what he'll do next.

Shakespeare Companies Suffer Backlash After 'Julius Caesar' Controversy

4:38pm June 23, 2017

by Hady Mawajdeh

The uproar over the New York Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar has spread to other cities. And it appears to be only because they are companies with the word "Shakespeare" in their name. Staff at Shakespeare Dallas have received death threats, even though the company isn't performing Shakespeare at the moment.