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Readers nominated Jaws for our list of 100 favorite horror stories — but our judges recommend you see the movie instead.

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What, No 'Jaws?' Or: See The Movie, Skip The Book

7:00am August 16, 2018

by Grady Hendrix

Readers may notice that some famous titles are missing from this year's final list of 100 favorite horror stories — books like Jaws and The Amityville Horror. That's because, frankly, they stink.

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H.P. Lovecraft And The Shadow Over Horror

7:00am August 16, 2018

by Ruthanna Emrys

Lovecraft's stories are among the foundations of modern horror; they still have the power to terrify today. But his bigotry is just as horrific — so how do we deal with this all-too-human darkness?

Photographer Tyler Mitchell On Being The First African-American To Shoot A 'Vogue' Cover

4:34pm August 15, 2018

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Tyler Mitchell about being the first African-American photographer to shoot the cover for Vogue and what it was like to work with Beyonce.

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Satire, Soap Opera, Duty, Devotion: 'Crazy Rich Asians' Is A Movie Milestone

1:59pm August 15, 2018

by Justin Chang

The romantic comedy based on Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel has been saddled with cultural and commercial expectations. Critic Justin Chang was happy to find the film doesn't collapse under the weight.

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'Flights' Is A Trip, If You Like Wandering Off The Edges Of The Map

8:28am August 15, 2018

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's new collection is a cabinet of curiosities — surreal, loosely connected stories about the human body, about movement, about two-headed calves and saints' relics.

In Skate Kitchen, the introverted Camille (played by Rachelle Vinberg, left) finds her tribe of skaters in New York City.

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Finding, Then Filming, The Young All-Female Crew In 'Skate Kitchen'

5:00am August 15, 2018

by Lakshmi Singh

Director Crystal Moselle stumbled upon a group of teenage skater girls on the New York City subway. Then she made a feature film that stars them.

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Che Apalache Hopes To Open Minds And Ears With Their Latin Bluegrass Fusion

6:11pm August 14, 2018

by Sandy Hausman

Che Apalache is a band made up of one North American and three Argentinians. They play bluegrass and have been a big hit with Anglo audiences and Latinx listeners as they tour the rural U.S.

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Rachel (Constance Wu) and Nick (Henry Golding) share a moment in the Singapore moonlight in Crazy Rich Asians.

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Opinion: Don't Sweat The #Repsweats And Let 'Crazy Rich Asians' Be What It Is

3:51pm August 14, 2018

by Kat Chow

NPR Code Switch reporter Kat Chow writes about the burdens imposed on representations of Asians and Asian-Americans in pop culture — even in a fun, frothy rom-com.

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'A Girl's Guide' To Growing Up On A Secretive Missile Test Site

2:04pm August 14, 2018

by Terry Gross

When Karen Piper was 6, her family moved to the Mojave Desert. In A Girl's Guide To Missiles she describes how her parents designed weapons, but she didn't understand how it all connected to war.

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A Day At The Beach Won't Be The Same After 'The World In A Grain'

10:01am August 14, 2018

by Genevieve Valentine

Journalist Vince Beiser's no-nonsense writing makes light reading of a grim subject, the past and future of sand, but it paints a telling picture of how great a problem lies before us.