Not My Job: We Quiz Baseball Pitcher Sean Doolittle On Real-World Saves
As a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals Doolittle saves baseball games, but how much does he know about real-world saves? We'll find out.
Arts
You Can Tour This Banjo Museum Without Getting Up From Your Couch
For more than 15 years, filmmaker Marc Fields has been on a quest to capture and share the story of the banjo. The Banjo Project is an online museum that covers the instrument's history and culture.
Kids These Days ... Are Reading Nietzsche In The 'Burbs'
It's easy to make fun of disgruntled teenagers, but in his funny new Nietzsche and the Burbs, author Lars Iyer depicts them accurately and with real sensitivity, never mocking or condescending.
In 'Work In Progress,' A Darkly Funny Coming-Of-Middle-Age
Abby McEnany plays a version of herself — a mid-40s, queer, gender non-conforming woman — in a new Showtime comedy series. It's the first TV project for the Chicago improv stalwart.
Class, Culture And Sexual Identity Take Center Stage In 'Girl, Woman, Other'
Bernardine Evaristo's nuanced and entertaining Booker Prize-winning novel is told from the point of view of 12 British women of color — all just a few degrees of separation apart from each other.
Wanda Sykes Loves Stand-Up: That's Where 'I Can Be Free,' She Says
Before Sykes became a comic, she worked at the NSA and had top security clearance. Now she takes on the president in her Emmy-nominated Netflix special Not Normal. Originally broadcast Aug. 1, 2019.
NPR's Favorite TV Shows Of 2019
Series such as Fleabag, Watchmen and Succession highlight our pop culture critics' list of the 19 best television and serial streaming programs of 2019.
Bill Irwin On Samuel Beckett
Bill Irwin is an old-fashioned baggy-pants clown who happens to be fascinated with Nobel-winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Irwin talks with NPR's David Greene.
The Word Of The Year Is 'They'
NPR's David Greene speaks with journalist Molly Woodstock about the Merriam-Webster dictionary selecting the singular, nonbinary pronoun "they" as the word of the year.
Malick's 'A Hidden Life' Soars Above The Clouds
Writer/director Terrence Malick's latest film, based on the life of an Austrian conscientious objector in WWII, "spends much of its three hours musing, or simply being beautiful."