Documentary Filmmaker On The Personal Essays In 'You Don't Look Your Age'
NPR's Scott Simon talks with award-winning documentary filmmaker Sheila Nevins about her new book, You Don't Look Your Age...And Other Fairy Tales.
Books
Art Is A Matter Of Life And Death In 'The Electric Sublime'
W. Maxwell Prince's bloody, silly and deeply likeable new graphic novel imagines a world where works of art are real spaces you can step into — with real problems that can cause hundreds of deaths.
19th Century Princess And Cookbook Author Was Also Georgia's First Feminist
Princess Barbare Jorjadze is renowned for her cookbook. But she spent most of her life writing letters, poems and essays, to fight for a greater public role for Georgian women.
Whose Side Was She On? 'American Heiress' Revisits Patty Hearst's Kidnapping
Legal expert Jeffrey Toobin says Hearst, who was abducted in 1974 and declared allegiance to her captors, "responded rationally to the circumstances." Originally broadcast Aug. 3, 2016.
What Did Ancient Romans Eat? New Novel Serves Up Meals And Intrigue
In ancient Rome, food was a bargaining chip for position for slaves and nobles alike. At the center of Feast Of Sorrow is real-life nobleman Apicius, who inspired the oldest surviving cookbook.
Paula Hawkins Prepares To Dive 'Into The Water'
Author Paula Hawkins was down on her luck when her 2015 book The Girl on the Train became a smash hit. Now she's grappling with success and preparing to launch her followup, Into the Water.
For 'New York Times' Obit Writers, 'Death Is Never Solicitous Of A Deadline'
Bruce Weber and Margalit Fox have written obituaries for thousands of people, ranging from heads of state to the inventor of the Etch-a-Sketch. They are featured in the new documentary Obit.
'The Radium Girls' Is Haunted By Glowing Ghosts
Kate Moore's account of the sufferings and struggles of the Radium Girls — factory workers who were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they worked with — reads like a true crime narrative.
In 'Walkaway,' A Blueprint For A New, Weird (But Better) World
Cory Doctorow's latest novel is set in a ripped-from-the-headlines near future dystopia, where the creative and the capable — and the lost — are walking into the wilderness to build a new world.
'Handmaid's Tale' Wants You To Feel Like 'This Could Happen Here'
Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley star in Hulu's TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel — in which fertile women become reproductive surrogates for powerful men and their barren wives.