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Backrooms, by 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons, is set in a mysterious maze of abandoned offices. Curry Barker, 26, tells a horror story about consent and male loneliness in Obsession.

Former first lady Jill Biden reflects on the end of her husband's 2024 campaign and her time in the White House with NPR's Scott Detrow, which she details in her new memoir, View From the East Wing.

Javier Bardem is riveting in this 10-part Apple TV miniseries about a man who, recently released from prison, goes on to terrorize his former attorney.

The Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker was perhaps most well-known for the graphic memoir, and subsequent film, about her life during the Iranian revolution in 1979.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Haili Blassingame about her debut, They All Fall in Love at the End, about a young woman navigating the chaos of recent years and her polyamorous relationships.

Actor Robert De Niro and producing partner Jane Rosenthal created the festival in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

In 'My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,' the narrator, a writer, actually spends one month trying to understand Stein's genius, how she invented herself, and her relationship with Alice B. Toklas.

The author is known for genre-bending stories that span Southern gothic, horror and fairy tale.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with bestselling author Ann Patchett about her new novel Whistler.

What were the broken promises of the 1979 Iranian Revolution? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter Yeganeh Torbati about the new book she co-authored, Stolen Revolution.