What Makes A Good Whodunit? 'Magpie Murders' Author Spells It Out
Anthony Horowitz's latest novel is a whodunit about whodunits. He says, "I wanted it to be ... a sort of a treatise on the whole genre of murder mystery writing."
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The Unkindest Cut: Theater, President Trump And The Politics Of Performing Arts
Is depicting the president as Julius Caesar fair game, or over the line?
Video: That Time We Tried Pore Vacuuming In South Korea
In NPR's Elise Tries series, correspondent Elise Hu tests out new experiences in East Asia. In this episode: pore vacuuming, a hot trend in Korean beauty. A suction pen excavates grime from your face.
Journalist Ventured 'Behind The Lines Of Jihad' To Interview The World's Most Wanted
Washington Post correspondent Souad Mekhennet has risked kidnapping and imprisonment to report on extremist groups, such as ISIS and the Taliban. Her new memoir is I Was Told to Come Alone.
Prog Rock Gets Some Respect In 'The Show That Never Ends'
David Weigel is primarily a political reporter, but in The Show that Never Ends he spins his love of prog rock into a detailed, affectionate history of a genre that's never completely gone away.
This Art Group Installs Pick-Your-Own-Fruit Parks Around Los Angeles
Since 2004, the group Fallen Fruit has been planting fruit trees around the city and across the U.S. Once mature, the trees produce hundreds of pounds of produce a year — all free to the public.
'So Much Blue' Is Percival Everett's Best Yet
By turns funny, shocking and heartbreaking, Everett's new novel follows a painter who's deeply ambivalent about his apparently idyllic life and digs into the moments in his past that shaped him.
At The Tonys, 'Dear Evan Hansen' Has A Big Night In A Dark Season
The 2017 Tony Awards weren't a coronation of any one show, but it was hard not to notice a theme of pointed social and political thought behind many of the winners.
50 Years After 'Loving,' Hollywood Still Struggles With Interracial Romance
Hollywood's long history of not putting interracial romance on-screen goes all the way back to the Hays Code, which prohibited the depiction of "sex relationships between the white and black races."
Sponsors Pull Support For 'Julius Caesar' That Seems To Depict Trump
Delta pulled its sponsorship of New York City's Public Theater over a production of Julius Caesar that seems to depict an assassination of President Trump.