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In a new podcast, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford converse for the 1st time

5:49pm October 07, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Salamishah Tillet, co-host of a new podcast that puts Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford in conversation together, for the first time. It's called Because of Anita.

Host of 'Making Gay History' reflects on coming of age during the AIDS crisis

5:01pm October 07, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Eric Marcus, the host of the podcast Making Gay History, about his audio memoir on coming of age during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

Fiona Hill, the National Security Council's former senior director for Europe and Russia, arrives on Capitol Hill on Nov. 21, 2019.

Former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill warns the U.S. is on a path to autocracy

8:57am October 07, 2021

by Terry Gross

Fiona Hill was a key witness at Donald Trump's first impeachment hearing. Now she's warning about the threat to American democracy that comes from within. Her memoir is There Is Nothing for You Here.

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Part horror, part lit fic, this gory new feast of a novel is almost too much

7:00am October 07, 2021

by Gabino Iglesias

James Han Mattson's Reprieve — set at a full-contact escape room attraction where actors can attack players — is overstuffed with character arcs and concepts, but somehow he makes it all work.

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Miriam Toews' latest novel offers ardent, funny lessons in staying and fighting

5:00am October 07, 2021

by Kristen Martin

Miriam Toews based the women of Fight Night on the women in her own life — her battles are their battles; against pompous religious leaders, abusive husbands and the lies depression can tell.

In No Time to Die, Daniel Craig shows us a James Bond who's gone fishing.

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Daniel Craig is the bookend Bond, giving 007's story a beginning — and an end

6:49pm October 06, 2021

by Chris Klimek

The last James Bond movie to star Daniel Craig is out today; Chris Klimek argues that Craig is the "bookend Bond," showing us 007 at the beginning and end, but never the prime of his career.

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This version of Sleeping Beauty is wide awake, and knows what to do with that spindle

4:20pm October 06, 2021

by Jessica P. Wick

Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered gives us a Sleeping Beauty for today, cursed not by an evil fairy but by an industrial accident, and yanked into another dimension where she must save a princess.

Smile: The Story of a Face, by Sarah Ruhl

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Writer with Bell's palsy ponders how to experience joy when expression is limited

1:41pm October 06, 2021

by Kristen Martin

Smile records Sarah Ruhl's coming to terms with her new face and the conundrums it presents — after the playwright wondered for ten years whether the story deserved to live on the page.

The original Poohsticks Bridge, featured in A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books, has gone up for auction. It's estimated to sell for around $54,000 to $81,000.

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The 'Poohsticks Bridge,' made famous in Winnie the Pooh, has gone up for auction

12:05pm October 06, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

As far as bridges go, the bridge is Roo-sized, measuring less than 30 feet long. But as Winnie the Pooh would say, "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

480 Otis, who is believed to be around 25 years old, emerged from hibernation looking very thin and facing health problems. But he deftly navigated both inter-bear relationships and a salmon-rich river to put on much-needed weight.

Fat Bear Week has a champion: All hail 480 Otis

10:41am October 06, 2021

by Bill Chappell

Who is the fattest bear of all? For the fourth time, the answer is 480 Otis, a brown bear who didn't let his lack of two canine teeth stop him from packing on the pounds.