This online game lets Italians predict the next pope like fantasy football
As the papal conclave nears, people in Italy turn to an online game for some possible outcomes. The goal is to exchange glory, not cash.
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Early R.E.M. single, recorded in Winston-Salem, re-released as Radio Free Europe faces potential cuts
The Trump administration says the government-funded news resource is wasteful and is trying to shut off its funding. Last week, R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe said whether it’s music or a free press, censorship anywhere is a threat to the truth everywhere.
Trump's plan for movie tariffs leads to global confusion
Production in Hollywood has been suffering. But it's unclear how a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the United States would work – or who it would help.
'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
The best 6 TV performances I've seen so far this year
NPR TV critic Eric Deggans picks his favorite performances of 2025 thus far, including Noah Wyle in The Pitt, Catherine O'Hara in The Last of Us and The Studio, and Carrie Coon in The White Lotus.
Supermarket displays of oranges will never look the same after reading 'Foreign Fruit'
In her new hybrid memoir, Katie Goh unravels the multitudes citrus fruit contains, in lockstep with mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and identity.
Remembering Pere Ubu's David Thomas, a frontman who preserved chaos
Thomas' April 23 death at age 71 brings to a close one of the most significant avant-garde experiments ever conducted within the confines of pop music. Rock critic Ken Tucker reflects on his legacy.
1 show, 26 characters: Sarah Snook shares the stage with herself in 'Dorian Gray'
Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway. "I don't know what comes after this," she says.
In 'Sinners,' the blues is a portal between this world and the next
Ryan Coogler's period thriller knows "the devil's music" isn't the opposite of the holy word, but its twin.
Times have changed — but the Rockettes keep kicking
Nearly 1,000 women from around the country flew to New York City to audition for the dance troupe on its 100th anniversary. What's helped it last so long?