DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m David Bianculli. The new film “The Friend,” starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, is based on the novel of the same name by Sigrid Nunez. Her book won a 2018 National Book Award for fiction. It begins with the narrator, a woman, at the memorial of a…
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It happens one night. Sooner than you imagined it would. To your surprise, the lounge is filled with a palpable, serendipitous energy. The kind that makes you feel glad you decided to put on pants and leave the house this evening. A remarkable, slutty effervescence you haven’t felt in some time. You graze shoulders with…
A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: Different people have different reference points for John Green. He is most famous as the young adult author who wrote the massively popular book The Fault in Our Stars, which was turned into a movie by the same name. But then there are the millions of people…
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Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, is detained by the Israeli military from his home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday. Raviv Rose/AP hide caption toggle caption Raviv Rose/AP JERUSALEM — Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land on Monday…
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When a police inspector goes missing, his identical twin assumes his identity in an effort to solve the disappearance. Ludwig is one of the most original takes on the TV mystery genre. TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The streaming service BritBox has a new mystery series called “Ludwig,” starring David Mitchell as a…
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Optimism vs. Past Experience In what promises to be the first of its many wins in this tournament, top-ranked Unjustified Optimism tips off against Everything You’ve Learned Over the Years when that guy Jonathan stops by your cubicle to see if you want to chip in a hundred dollars for this year’s March Madness pool….
Hundreds stand outside of a New York courthouse to protest the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was arrested by federal immigration agents in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Noor Abdalla and her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, are expecting their first child next…
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Robert De Niro plays Frank Costello in The Alto Knights. Jennifer Rose Clasen/Warner Bros. hide caption toggle caption Jennifer Rose Clasen/Warner Bros. It’s been 10 years since Barry Levinson directed a new feature, and if that seems like a long wait, I should note that it’s taken 50 years for The Alto Knights, his new…
TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently joined the manosphere, the world of political podcasts, streams and YouTube channels, where young men have become the new MAGA vanguard. (SOUNDBITE OF PODCAST, “THIS IS GAVIN NEWSOM”) GAVIN NEWSOM: This is Gavin Newsom, and this is Steve Bannon. And…
The disparity between the Division I men’s and women’s basketball championships was highlighted in a document provided to multiple media outlets by the NCAA. . . . The document cited examples as to why the women’s tournament budget is less than the men’s, saying the biggest difference in the championship budgets is the location of women’s tournament first-…
