Arts
Edie Falco On Sobriety, The Sopranos, And Nurse Jackie's Self-Medication
Falco plays ER nurse Jackie Peyton, who is competent at her high-stress job but struggles with addiction. The sixth season of Nurse Jackie begins Sunday on Showtime.
'Parenthood' Is Hard, But NBC Gets This Family Drama Right
Critic David Bianculli says family dramas have always been one of television's most difficult genres to do properly — without getting too sweet, too overwrought, or too predictable.
A Nonbeliever Tries To Make Sense Of The Visions She Had As A Teen
Barbara Ehrenreich — a rationalist, atheist and scientist by training — has written a new memoir called Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything.
If Jesus Never Called Himself God, How Did He Become One?
In How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman explores how a Jewish preacher from Galilee was transformed into a deity. "Jesus himself didn't call himself God and didn't consider himself God," Ehrman says.
Mickey Rooney, All-American Boy For More Than 90 Years, Dies
Bob Mondello offers an appreciation of the career of Mickey Rooney, who died at 93.
Peter Matthiessen On Writing And Zen Buddhism
Fresh Air listens back to our 1989 interview with Snow Leopard author and Paris Review co-founder Peter Matthiessen, who died Saturday at age 86. His new novel In Paradise comes out Tuesday.
'In Paradise,' Matthiessen Considers Our Capacity For Cruelty
At 86, Matthiessen has written what he says "may be his last word." In Paradise, a novel about a visit to a Nazi extermination camp, caps a career spanning six decades and 33 books.