Arts

Arts

Fresh Air Weekend: A Numbers Runner's Daughter; Random House Copy Chief

12:40pm February 09, 2019

Growing up, Bridgett M. Davis' mother booked bets from their home in Detroit. John Powers reviews Everybody Knows and Cold War. Benjamin Dreyer explains why he avoids writing the word "very."

Queue Listen Now

Stacey Abrams participates in a debate on May 20, 2018, in Atlanta, Ga.

Arts

Not My Job: We Quiz Georgia Politician Stacey Abrams On Bromances

11:31am February 09, 2019

When Abrams isn't busy doing things like delivering national speeches and running for office, she's also a romance writer — under the pen name Selena Montgomery.

Queue Listen Now

A picture taken on Feb. 8, 2019 shows the signature "AHitler" on a watercolor entitled "Im Wald" (In the forest) displayed at the Weidler auction house in the southern city of Nuremberg.

Opinion: Paintings By Adolf Hitler Are 'Unremarkable,' So Why Forge Them?

11:21am February 09, 2019

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on why someone would create a forgery of a painting by Adolf Hitler after German police raided an art house in Nuremberg with suspected counterfeits painted by the Führer.

Queue Listen Now

A People's Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams.

Books
Arts

New Collection Asks: What Might The 'People's Future' Look Like?

10:00am February 09, 2019

by Arkady Martine

This new collection of speculative fiction stories imagines the lives of marginalized people in a variety of difficult future Americas. It's not an easy read, but it has depths of resilience and hope.

detail of the cover of The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Books
Arts

In 'The Night Tiger,' Fantastic Beasts Of Colonial Malaysia

8:21am February 09, 2019

by Scott Simon

Yangsze Choo's second novel features a disembodied finger, Chinese dancehalls of the 1930s and weretigers. For the author, it's a book of parallel worlds: the supernatural and the real.

Books
Arts

'Enchantée' Casts A Delightful Spell

7:00am February 09, 2019

by Caitlyn Paxson

Gita Trelease's new novel follows a young woman trying to support her family in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, using trickery and a little real magic to disguise herself as an aristocrat.

The painting "Millie on the South Lawn" by Christine Merrill hangs at the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog.

Arts

Dogs Have Their Day: AKC Dog Museum Opens In New York City

6:33pm February 08, 2019

by Amanda Morris

From the educational to the artful, the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog is reopening in New York City, featuring lots of artifacts about our furry, four-legged friends.

A couple side by side in bed, each looking at their cell phones.

Books
Arts

'Love Poems For Married People' Will Help Spice Things Up In The— Zzzzz

4:26pm February 08, 2019

by Ari Shapiro

Honey? You awake? The soft glow of a smartphone screen, the caress of sweatpants, a new collection of poems by John Kenney celebrates what happens to romance after years (and years) of marriage.

Queue Listen Now

Albert Finney as Tom Jones in the 1963 movie Tom Jones.

Arts

Albert Finney, Who Played Tom Jones, Daddy Warbucks And Hamlet, Dies At 82

2:47pm February 08, 2019

by Petra Mayer

The renowned British actor was nominated for five Oscars and two Tony Awards, among other prizes. His career spanned six decades, from understudying Laurence Olivier to appearing in a James Bond film.

Arts

Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen On Singing Cowboys And Working With Oxen

1:41pm February 08, 2019

by Terry Gross

The Coen brothers spoke to Fresh Air in November 2018 about The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Western that often subverts the expectations of the genre. The film is up for three Academy Awards.

Queue Listen Now