'Dope' Director On Geekdom, The N-Word And Confronting Racism With Comedy
Rick Famuyiwa's film, Dope, is about a black high-school student who's into 90s hip-hop and Japanese comic books. Originally broadcast July 1, 2015.
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'Thirteen Ways' Takes A Powerful, Layered Look At Life
Colum McCann's new story collection plays with images of surveillance — traffic cams, nanny cams — to capture a complex picture of love, loss, pain and the way our lives so swiftly pass away.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Steve Jobs' And More About Moguls
On this week's show: Steve Jobs, Sorkin dialogue, Seth Rogen, Citizen Kane, Empire, rich business guys in suits, and what's making us happy this week.
Cooper Hewitt Honors Colorful California Ceramics Company
Heath Ceramics' tiles and tableware are the darling of midcentury-design fans. Now, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is honoring the company for its aesthetics, values and business model.
Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak': A Gothic Romance Inside Richly Creepy Walls
Guillermo Del Toro loads this genre piece with so much luscious visual language that its story and performers are almost superfluous.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hanya Yanagihara And Pam Muñoz Ryan Win Kirkus Prizes
The literary awards were handed out for nonfiction, fiction and young readers' literature, respectively. Established just last year by Kirkus Reviews, the prize offers $50,000 to each winner.
Remember 'Beakman's World'? The Wacky Scientist Is Still Big In Latin America
The children's TV show ran for just five years in the U.S. in the 1990s. But it's still hugely popular in Latin America, and a stage version of the show attracts audiences in the thousands.
'The Golden Compass' Turns 20 (Its Daemon Has Probably Settled)
Philip Pullman's beloved fantasy series traces the adventures of brave young Lyra Belacqua (and her daemon, Pantalaimon), through an alternate universe that occasionally spills over into our own.
How Twitter And Cooking Saved Ruth Reichl After 'Gourmet' Folded
Food writer Ruth Reichl has a new cookbook called My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. It describes how she found her voice after Conde Nast shut down the magazine where she was editor.