More Literary Whispers And Another Quest In Malick's 'Knight'
Enigmatic writer-director Terrence Malick returns with Knight Of Cups, which bears a strong resemblance to his last two films, Tree Of Life and To The Wonder.
Arts
The Ordinary World Shares Space With Ghosts, Spirits And 'Splendor'
Cemetery Of Splendor, the latest from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, beautiful imagery accompanies a story of believers and the healing of mysteriously sleeping soldiers.
'Zootopia' Makes A Pitch For A More Paw-fect Union Without Being Preachy
Zootopia exists in a world where lions and lambs get along just fine. NPR film critic Bob Mondello says it avoids being a lecture and ends up one of the more amusing kid flicks out there.
Why Did Humans Become The Most Successful Species On Earth?
Historian Yuval Harari explains how human imagination powered the growth and spread of homo sapiens around the world.
What Makes An Idea Go Viral?
Entrepreneur and blogger Seth Godin describes how the marketing of ideas has changed since the invention of sliced bread, as well as the type of ideas that stick in consumer's minds.
America's 'Lead Wars' Go Beyond Flint, Mich.: 'It's Now Really Everywhere'
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz chronicle America's poisonous relationship with lead in Lead Wars. "We've created a terribly toxic environment in all sorts of ways," Rosner says.
Some Artists Are Seeing Red Over A New 'Black'
It's not a paint or a pigment. It's not even really black. But the "material" known as Vantablack is causing a stir after renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor bought exclusive rights to use it in art.
Trump: The Reality TV Years
Before Donald Trump was a presidential candidate, he spent many, many seasons headlining the show The Apprentice, where he was presented as the embodiment of success and an enemy of weakness.
'The Yid' Blends Soviet Fact And Fiction
Paul Goldberg's audacious new novel trades in rumor and anecdote, conjuring a time of anti-Semitism and violence in 1950s Moscow.
It's Like Uber
We're going to pitch some app ideas! Each of them is a word or phrase combined with the word "Uber." So something that's like Uber, but for the plant that pandas love to eat, would be a "Bamboo-ber."