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In Fleabag, the show's creator and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge stars as a young Londoner struggling to make sense of sex, family and life itself.

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'Fleabag' Returns For A Raunchy 2nd Season — And Quits While It's Ahead

3:48pm May 16, 2019

by John Powers

Phoebe Waller-Bridge pulls off the rare feat of taking a hugely successful show and making it much better. In Season 2, her character falls for a foul-mouthed Catholic priest.

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Rabbit by Jeff Koons was sold for more than $91 million at Christie's in New York on Wednesday night. It set a record for the most expensive work by a living artist to be sold at auction.

Jeff Koons' 'Rabbit' Fetches $91 Million, Auction Record For Work By A Living Artist

2:19pm May 16, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

Robert Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of the U.S. Treasury secretary, bought the sculpture for a client. Some art collectors consider the silver bunny to be "the holy grail of Koons works."

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'Middlegame' Makes Mathematical Magic

7:00am May 16, 2019

by Jason Sheehan

Seanan McGuire's new standalone novel stars twins: Roger is good at words and Dodger is good at math — and both of them find themselves caught up in a shadowy alchemical plan for world domination.

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New 'Tell Them, I Am' Podcast Explores Lives Of Muslims Through Small Defining Moments

9:06pm May 15, 2019

This Ramadan, Misha Euceph, host of Tell Them, I Am podcast, focuses on small defining moments and characteristics that make 22 different Muslims who they are.

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The characters in The Big Bang Theory were "outliers" who formed a "surrogate family," says show co-creator Chuck Lorre. Above, Simon Helberg, left, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Jim Parsons and Kunal Nayyar.

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After 12 Seasons, 'Big Bang' Writers Bid Farewell To Their 'Surrogate Family'

4:35pm May 15, 2019

by Mandalit del Barco

It's a bittersweet ending for the team of writers and creators behind the hit CBS show. Writer Dave Goetsch says he simply cannot bring himself to turn off his daily Google alert for physics news.

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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, by Adam Gopnik

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'A Thousand Small Sanities' Is A Lesson In Understanding Liberalism

2:47pm May 15, 2019

by Gabino Iglesias

By showing the impact it's had in the past, Adam Gopnik presents liberalism not only as a moral adventure but also as a necessity in an age of resurging autocracy and rampant bigotry.

Cover detail of Howard Stern Comes Again

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Howard Stern On 'Fresh Air': Part 2

1:52pm May 15, 2019

by Terry Gross

In the second half of our two-part interview, Stern talks about his 2017 cancer scare, his thoughts on retirement and his mother's depression. His new book is Howard Stern Comes Again.

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'Fresh Air' Remembers Hollywood Legend Doris Day

1:33pm May 15, 2019

by Terry Gross

The singer and actor, who died May 12, made nearly 40 movies over the course of her career. In 1968, Day walked away from performing and began rescuing animals. Originally broadcast in 2012.

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Karen Russell Proves She's A True Original With 'Orange World'

7:00am May 15, 2019

by Michael Schaub

Russell's new story collection encompasses everything from a boy in love with a bog body to a woman trying to get out of a bargain with the devil — it's unlike anything you've ever read before.

Tim Conway told NPR in 2010 that he was destined to do comedy. When people inquired about what he might have done other than showbiz, he'd say, "Nothing, because I'm not capable of doing anything else." Conway is pictured here in February 1983.

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Tim Conway, Who Relished The Role Of Comedic Co-Star, Dies At 85

7:11pm May 14, 2019

by Eric Deggans

Conway built a career playing goofballs who rarely took center stage. On The Carol Burnett Show, he developed a reputation for sidesplitting improvisations that cracked everybody up.

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