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Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is a woman bent on revenge — until she meets nice guy Ryan (Bo Burnham) in Promising Young Woman.

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'Promising Young Woman' And 'Pieces Of A Woman' Examine Trauma And Revenge

11:27am January 13, 2021

by Justin Chang

Two new films center on the lingering effects of trauma and tragedy. Carey Mulligan is woman bent on revenge in Promising Young Woman; Vanessa Kirby is a mother whose baby dies in Pieces of a Woman.

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Emma Amos Died Just Before Her Retrospective But Her Art Is Alive As Ever

10:06am January 13, 2021

by Susan Stamberg

For six decades Amos explored race and gender in prints, paintings and fabrics. She died at 83 from complications of Alzheimer's but she knew that the Georgia Museum of Art show was in the works.

'Aftershocks' Tells Of A Reckoning With The Self — And With Memory

7:07am January 13, 2021

by Ilana Masad

Writer Nadia Owusu has lived many lives. Her nonlinear memoir, centered on the idea of physical and metaphorical earthquakes, is about all of the parts of what is her single, complex life.

James Herriott (played by Nicholas Ralph) gets up in a lot of animals' business in the new All Creatures Great And Small.

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Need A Break? The Pets And Vets Of 'All Creatures Great And Small' Might Hit The Spot

5:00am January 13, 2021

by Linda Holmes

A new adaptation of James Herriot's books about life as a Yorkshire vet in the 1930s has gorgeous landscapes, majestic animals, and a welcome focus on home and work.

Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: Minyo Crusaders, Hit La Rosa, Natu Camara, Emel

8:00pm January 12, 2021

The second night of our virtual festival features music from Japan, Peru, Guinea and Tunisia.

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'Kill Switch' Examines The Racist History Of The Senate Filibuster

3:15pm January 12, 2021

by Terry Gross

Adam Jentleson traces the history of the filibuster, which started as a tool of Southern senators upholding slavery and then later became a mechanism to block civil rights legislation.

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There's Not A Single Off Note In 'That Old Country Music'

7:00am January 12, 2021

by Michael Schaub

In his new story collection, Kevin Barry proves to be a master at evoking the landscapes of both western Ireland and the human heart; he seems to have an innate sense of why people do what they do.

A photo shows seats with stickers to respect social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the Theatre de l'Archeveche in Aix-en-Provence, southern France, on July 23, 2020.

In France, Performing Artists Are Guaranteed Unemployment Income

7:22pm January 11, 2021

by Eleanor Beardsley

As U.S. performing artists struggle to make ends meet during the pandemic, those in France are benefitting from an unemployment system that takes into account the intermittent nature of their work.

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Fran Lebowitz talks about a wide variety of topics — including her stint as a New York City cab driver — in the Netflix series Pretend It's a City.

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Fran Lebowitz's 'Pretend It's A City' Is The NYC Trip You Can't Take Right Now

4:50pm January 11, 2021

by Terry Gross

The show features the humorist's conversations with Martin Scorsese on many topics, Manhattan in particular. "If I dropped the Hope Diamond on the floor of a subway car, I'd leave it there," she says.

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Glimmers Of Hope: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 1

2:09pm January 11, 2021

This year, critic Craig Morgan Teicher says American poetry has become too big for just one person to cover, so he's invited five colleagues to bring their own perspectives to our 2021 poetry preview.