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On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Tim Blake Nelson talks about feeling like he's running out of time to do the things he wants.
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While marveling at Artemis II's mission, NPR's film critic went down a rabbit hole about moon-themed movies. Most have nothing to do with space.
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Much of our image of Dylan derives from his early protest music, but Robert Polito's book makes the argument that the most recent 30 years of Dylan's career have been just as creative as the first 30.
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The new Netflix comedy created by Dan Levy and Rachel Sennott stars Levy as an uptight pastor and Taylor Ortega as his sister.
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The books we're spotlighting this month don't exactly radiate escapist good vibes — but they do offer the opportunity to step into someone else's life and get to know their view of our shared world.
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In 2020, Annabelle Gurwitch went to urgent care for a COVID-19 test and learned she had cancer. She writes about life as a "cancer slacker" in her memoir, The End of My Life is Killing Me.
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Why do high-achieving young people often suffer anxiety and depression? They might be searching for the meaning of life.
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Unsupervised play, once a normal part of American childhood, has largely been superseded by screens, structured activities and safety culture.
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Friction-maxxing, coined by New York Magazine columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton, is the idea of putting aside our phones and the convenience they bring in exchange for doing things the way we did before technology entered our lives.
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A tortured Oslo police detective may be on the trail of a psycho killer in this genuinely suspenseful screen adaptation of Jo Nesbø's The Devil's Star.
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From dystopian drama to Silicon Valley satire, a wave of buzzy new series — and a few big finales — arrives all at once.
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Known for his ruthless celebrity roasts, Ross turns inward in his Netflix special, Take a Banana for the Ride, which details the loss of his parents and grandfather.