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No Pink, But Plenty of Red, In Hack-N-Slash 'Fairyland'

10:00am May 01, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

Skottie Young's comic may horrify (or delight) the parents of princess-obsessed kids. It's the story of a not-so-little girl who's gone a little violent after 27 years trapped in a sparkly fairyland.

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The Mathematics Of Magic And Loss In 'Square Root Of Summer'

7:00am May 01, 2016

by Caitlyn Paxson

Teenaged math whiz Gottie knows a little too much about subtraction; her fractured family is spinning apart sfter the death of her beloved grandfather — and that's before the time wormholes appear.

'Urban Rez' Explores What It Means To Be Native American

5:08pm April 30, 2016

by Betto Arcos

A new play created by Los Angeles' Cornerstone Theater tells the story of Los Angeles' Native American population and its search for identity in a big city.

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Not My Job: Journalist Lesley Stahl Gets Quizzed On 'Star Trek'

12:19pm April 30, 2016

This year is the 50th anniversary of the original Star Trek. To mark the occasion, we've invited Stahl to answer three questions about the show.

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Weeping For All That Is Lost: A Harsh Migration Out Of India

10:00am April 30, 2016

by Nishant Dahiya

Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows three men who journey from India to England, looking for a better life. But NPR's Nishant Dahiya says that life turns out to be a complex, and often dangerous one.

As The Good Wife comes to a close, Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) has risen to managing partner at her Chicago law firm and Peter Florrick (Chris Noth) is again facing corruption charges.

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'Good Wife' Creators Say They Wanted To End The Show 'While It Was Still Good'

8:24am April 30, 2016

by NPR Staff

"There was seven seasons-worth of story to tell in the education of Alicia Florrick, and we've come to the end of that story," says co-creator Michelle King. The Good Wife series finale airs May 8.

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Nick Robinson as the troubled teen lead in Being Charlie.

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Rob And Nick Reiner Say 'Being Charlie' Is 'Drawn From Our Lives'

8:24am April 30, 2016

by NPR Staff

Being Charlie is a new film about addiction in a Hollywood family. It's a story director Rob Reiner and his son, writer Nick Reiner, say they know well because of their own family's struggles.

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Don DeLillo has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and been nominated for several Pulitzer Prizes. His new book is Zero K.

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'Zero K' Freezes At The Edge Of Immortality

8:23am April 30, 2016

by NPR Staff

In Don DeLillo's new novel, a billionaire secretly funds an enterprise aimed at preserving people through cryogenics — a technology he hopes to use to rejoin his already-frozen wife.

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'Imagine Me Gone' Paints Mental Illness Through Five Fictional Voices

7:58am April 30, 2016

NPR's Scott Simon asks Adam Haslett about his latest novel. Haslett says he "needed that imaginary space to investigate" his family history of mental illness.

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Stars Tell The Story Of This Fairy Tale-Inspired 'Queen'

7:00am April 30, 2016

by Amal El-Mohtar

Roshani Chokshi's smooth and assured debut draws on folk and fairy tales — Bluebeard, Persephone, Beauty and the Beast — for the story of a young girl whose ominous horoscope sends her on a journey.