'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson says Nolan should have hired a scriptwriter

The renowned classics scholar caused a stir when her critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey went viral. Wilson explains her reaction to the film and why she's translating the poem again.

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Do you know where your birth certificate is? Journalist warns of new voting barriers

The rules of the midterms are being rewritten, from redistricting to campaign money. Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman explains why President Trump seems "obsessed with the mechanics of voting."

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'My role was making movies that mattered,' says Jodie Foster, as 'Taxi Driver' turns 50

Foster was just 12 years old when she starred in the 1976 film. "What luck to have been part of that, our golden age of cinema in the '70s," she says. Her latest film is Vie Privée (A Private Life).

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"I Wanted To Share A Piece Of Him" - Terry Gross On Sharing Her Husband's Work After His Death

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Brendan Fraser on his lifelong search for belonging

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Maureen Corrigan's 10 favorite books of 2025 — with plenty for nonfiction lovers

Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by their sweep and intensity. Karen Russell's The Antidote was her favorite.

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George Clooney's kids don't care about his success (and that's a good thing)

In Jay Kelly, Clooney plays an emotionally stunted movie star struggling with work and family life. He can relate: "We're all balancing it. We're never getting it perfect."

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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on balancing work and family — when work is a war zone

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has been kidnapped and thrown from a car. Still, Addario says, parenting two young kids can be more challenging than war reporting.

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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on balancing work and family — when work is a war zone

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has been kidnapped and thrown from a car. Still, Addario says, parenting two young kids can be more challenging than war reporting.

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'It's as if I've been reborn': Misty Copeland begins a next chapter in 'a new body'

Copeland says her final performance with American Ballet Theatre was a thank you to the communities that had supported her. "What I represented is something far bigger than me," she says.

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Judd Apatow on life as a "Comedy Nerd"

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Why Cameron Crowe wears 'uncool' as a badge of honor

Crowe was just 15 years old when he became a music journalist in 1973. He had to talk his mom into letting him go on the road with bands. He chronicles his adventures in his new memoir, The Uncool.

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'I can't stop DJing,' Mark Ronson says — never mind the back pain

Ronson's memoir, Night People, is a love letter to late-night 1990s New York City. Ronson would go on to produce music for Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and other pop superstars.

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Comic Cristela Alonzo grew up in fear of border patrol. ICE has 'brought it all back'

For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.

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Samin Nosrat once shunned recipes. Now she's sharing them

The Salt Fat Acid Heat cookbook author once worried that recipes were too constraining. But she now sees them as a tool for creating community and sharing food. Nosrat's new book is Good Things.

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Terry Gross on 50 Years of “Fresh Air” | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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The laughs land in 'The Naked Gun' reboot, but fall flat in 'Freakier Friday'

The new Naked Gun film, starring Liam Neeson, captures its predecessors' slapstick spirit. Freakier Friday, meanwhile, proves less compelling, despite a solid performance by Lindsey Lohan.

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With 'WTF' ending, podcaster Marc Maron still wants to talk, but outside the studio

As Maron winds down his podcast, he reflects on what he'll miss most. "These conversations [on WTF] are very real conversations for me ... and that is kind of nourishing for the spirit and the soul."

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You'll find a gripping new internet thriller in the 'Cloud'

The internet and its discontents run wild in a new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolifically offbeat Japanese filmmaker who's spent the last four decades putting subversive spins on traditional genres.

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How did Condé Nast go from dominance to decline? A new book explains

For decades, Condé Nast publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair were consequential tastemakers. Writer Michael Grynbaum explores the heyday of these magazines and how they lost their footing.

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Hold the yelling: Ebon Moss-Bachrach says 'The Bear' set is 'very loving'

Moss-Bachrach has won two Emmys for his portrayal of an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d on the FX series The Bear. The show is known for kitchen chaos, but he says the set is calm and well run.

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'Law & Order' star investigates her own family's tragic car crash in 'My Mom Jayne'

Mariska Hargitay has only the vaguest memories of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, the sex-symbol movie star who died in the 1967 crash. Now, Hargitay examines her family history in a new documentary.

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Looking for summertime suspense? Turn up the heat with these 4 mystery novels

Maureen Corrigan recommends four great reads: El Dorado Drive, by Megan Abbott; The House on Buzzards Bay, by Dwyer Murphy; King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby; and Murder Takes a Vacation, by Laura Lippman.

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Thomas Mallon's NYC diaries get to the 'Very Heart' of the AIDS crisis

Mallon has been keeping diaries for most of his life. The Very Heart of It collects entries from the years 1983 to 1994, when he had recently come out as gay and moved to New York City.

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Cold case mystery 'Dept. Q' focuses more on the characters than crime

An Edinburgh police detective and a team of misfits search for a woman who vanished several years earlier. Critic John Powers says the byplay of characters makes Dept. Q worth watching.

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Growing up, comic Atsuko Okatsuka felt like 'a freak' -- now she's owning it

Okatsuka is known for her bowl haircut — and for finding humor in the dysfunction of her immigrant family. Her standup special Father is about her dad, who reappeared in her life after decades away.

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'The Life of Chuck' might leave you brushing away tears -- or scratching your head

Mike Flanagan's new film, a maudlin mystery about a man dying of cancer, feels hobbled by its extreme faithfulness to the Stephen King novella on which its based.

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