Yes We Can
In this final round, every answer will contain the letters C-A-N, in that order, somewhere in the answer. As in, "Leave the gun, take the cannoli."
Arts
AMA Bonus: Leslie Odom Jr. Performs 'The Guilty Ones'
Leslie Odom Jr., the singer and actor performs a cover of Duncan Sheik's "The Guilty Ones" from Odom's self-titled debut album — with guitarist Robin Macatangay.
'British Bake Off' Winner Takes On The Toughest Judge Of All: The Queen
This year the task of coming up with a birthday cake fit for a queen fell to Nadiya Hussain, the winner of the most recent season of the wildly popular TV show The Great British Bake Off.
Cooking With The Bard: We Suss Out Shakespeare's Forgotten Foods
References to obscure foods abound in Shakespeare. Know your codlings from carbonadoes? Your umbles from jumbles? We crack open Renaissance cookbooks to figure out how to feast like the Bard.
'You Belong To The Universe' Explores Visionary Spirit Of Buckminster Fuller
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with author Jonathon Keats on his book, You Belong to the Universe, which looks at famed inventor Buckminster Fuller.
Angels, Mobsters, Monsters: This 'Box' Really Does Have Everything
Richard Kadrey kicks off a new series about a magic-immune thief in a magic-soaked Los Angeles with The Everything Box. It's a madcap ride in which the end of humanity is just the beginning.
From A Whaling Ship To A Mysterious Painting, New Novels Deliver Big Thrills
Reviewer Maureen Corrigan says Ian McGuire's The North Water and Dominic Smith's The Last Painting of Sara de Vos are suspenseful historical novels that may just give readers nightmares.
'Scary Old Sex': Stories Of Love From The Aged
Seventy-four-year-old author Arlene Heyman discusses her debut short-story collection, which focuses on the sex lives and intimate relationships of characters in their 60s and 70s.
Humanity And Technology Merge In Uneven But Intriguing 'Join'
Steve Toutonghi's new novel imagines an America where people can fuse their psyches together and share a single body — but the story's compelling urgency is sometimes buried in exposition and theory.
Tribeca Notebook: An Uncommon Baseball Movie
The Phenom follows a major league pitcher who finds himself suddenly unable to pitch and troubled by his history with his abusive father, played by Ethan Hawke.