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Filmmaker Judd Apatow describes his mentor, the comedian Garry Shandling (above), as a perfectionist: "He just could not just be chill and make it easy on himself. He wanted everything to be amazing."

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After Comic Garry Shandling's Death, Judd Apatow Found Zen In His Diaries

2:27pm November 11, 2019

by Terry Gross

"He completely changed my life," Apatow says of his mentor. It's Garry Shandling's Book, which Apatow edited, explores the insecurities and personal trauma that Shandling turned into comedy.

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Former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley's repeated pledges of allegiance to Trump in her new memoir, With All Due Respect, may surprise those who thought Haley had left the administration halfway through her term as some sort of protest. Here, Haley is

In Memoir, Nikki Haley Hammers White House Team But Pledges Allegiance To Trump

10:50am November 11, 2019

by Ron Elving

In With All Due Respect, the former U.N. ambassador says Trump's ex-Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked her to help them "save the country" from the president.

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'Space Invaders' Maps Pixelated Battles Onto Real-Life Conflict

7:00am November 11, 2019

by Lily Meyer

The characters in Nona Fernández' new book are coming of age during Chile's brutal military dictatorship — and for them, video games are a useful framework for understanding the dangers all around.

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Lindy West: 'The Witches Are Coming' — And They Are Rightfully Angry

5:37am November 11, 2019

by Noel King

"For a long time, a certain set of men have called women like me 'witches' to silence and discredit us," West says. Her book explores misogyny, the #MeToo movement and growing up female in America.

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'The Movie Musical!' Is A Symphony In Praise Of The 'Razzmatazz' Of The Genre

11:12am November 10, 2019

by Jason Heller

Jeanine Basinger argues, authoritatively and passionately, that the musical has never really left us, that there's relevance and inspiration to be gleaned from the golden age of Hollywood musicals.

Howard Weistling created his comic book A Western out of cigarette wrappers and flattened soup cans while he was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II.

'Like Getting My Father Back': WWII POW's Art Returned To His Family

9:25am November 10, 2019

by Laurel Morales

Howard Weistling dreamed of becoming a great comic strip artist, but he felt compelled to enlist in the Army Air Corps during WWII. He eventually created a comic while a prisoner of war in Germany.

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Lara Maiklem searches for treasures along the foreshore of the Thames.

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London's 'Mudlark' Pulls Treasure From The Thames

8:09am November 10, 2019

by Petra Mayer

"Mudlarks" were the people who made a living picking objects out of the mud along the River Thames. Writer Lara Maiklem follows in their tracks; she chronicles her journeys in a new book, Mudlark.

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, illustrated by Peter Kuper

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Graphic Adaptation Of 'Heart Of Darkness' Takes On Canonical Racism, Artfully

7:00am November 10, 2019

by Etelka Lehoczky

Artist Peter Kuper has adapted Joseph Conrad's classic Heart of Darkness in a way that undercuts Conrad's depiction of Africa as a place of existential horror, and centers the African characters.

People march along the Mississippi River levee in Louisiana on Friday as they perform in a reenactment of the 1811 German Coast Uprising.

Hundreds March In Reenactment Of A Historic, But Long Forgotten Slave Rebellion

8:42pm November 09, 2019

Artist Dread Scott organized the 26-mile trek to New Orleans as a tribute to the men and women who protested their enslavement in the German Coast Uprising of 1811 by re-imagining a different outcome.

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Norman Reedus and Guillermo Del Toro both make appearances in Death Stranding, the new game from famed game designer and writer Hideo Kojima.

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New Game 'Death Stranding' Is A Compelling Mess

5:02pm November 09, 2019

by Vincent Acovino

The latest game from visionary game designer Hideo Kojima is marred by moments of frustrating gameplay and bad dialogue. That doesn't mean it isn't interesting.