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A lost world comes alive in 'Through the Groves,' a memoir of pre-Disney Florida

3:10pm July 12, 2023

by Maureen Corrigan

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in the rural interior of Central Florida during the 1960s and '70s. Her memoir evokes a land of perfect citrus, and the cruel costs of its harvest.

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The 2023 Emmy Awards ceremony will air on Monday, September 18 on Fox.

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Here are the 2023 Emmy Award nominations

2:27pm July 12, 2023

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Nominees for the 75th annual Emmy Awards were announced Wednesday by actor Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy Chairman Frank Scherma.

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The 2023 Emmy nominations are in: What's old, what's new and what's next?

2:11pm July 12, 2023

by Aisha Harris

The old guard was out in force: 27 nods for Succession, 23 for The White Lotus and 21 for Ted Lasso. But there's a healthy mix of new shows, too, including The Last of Us, Jury Duty and The Bear.

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In 'The Vegan,' a refreshing hedge-fund protagonist

12:31pm July 12, 2023

by Mary Childs

Andrew Lipstein achieves the difficult feat of realistically animating a hedge fund manager who talks and moves as real hedge fund managers might, but who is compelling and not overly alienating.

Czech author Milan Kundera is best known for his book The Unbearable Lightness of Being. After the Soviet occupation, Kundera was blacklisted and banned. He lived in exile in France, where he would later become a citizen. He's pictured above in 1973.

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Milan Kundera, who wrote 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' dies at 94

7:50am July 12, 2023

by Andrew Limbong

The Czech writer tackled big topics — sex, surveillance, death, totalitarianism — but always with a sense of humor. Blacklisted and banned in the Soviet Union, he left for France in 1975.

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler's famous 1871 oil on canvas was actually conceived as "an experiment in color." It's called Arrangement in Gray and Black No.1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother.

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When Whistler's model didn't show up, his mom stepped in — and made art history

5:08am July 12, 2023

by Susan Stamberg

Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's "founding mothers," pays a visit to a painting of another famous mother at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: James Abbott McNeill Whistler's 1871 oil on canvas.

Kecalf Franklin, a son of music superstar Aretha Franklin leaves a court hearing with his family on Tuesday in Pontiac, Mich. A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has turned her sons against each other.

A jury rules a handwritten will found under Aretha Franklin's couch cushion is valid

9:17pm July 11, 2023

by Ayana Archie

Multiple handwritten wills were found in Franklin's home in 2019. Two of Franklin's sons would like a 2014 will to be honored and are up against their brother, who wanted to uphold a 2010 will.

Sweden's deal with Turkey to enter NATO stirs concern in Kurdish community

5:27pm July 11, 2023

Attorney Miran Kakaee talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about how Kurds in Sweden are responding to the concessions the country has made in response to Turkey's demands over their NATO membership.

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Native Americans argue in court that 2 mining projects would destroy religious sites

5:27pm July 11, 2023

by Kirk Siegler

Two large mines important for America's green energy transition are being fought in federal court by Native Americans who say the developments would destroy sacred, religious sites.

Main suspect in the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders dies

4:40pm July 11, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Chicago Tribune reporter Stacy St. Clair about the Tylenol Murders that happened in the Chicago area in 1982. The prime suspect, James Lewis, died Sunday at age 76.