Arts & Life

Maurizio Cattelan's America goes on display Friday at the Guggenheim in New York. The artist says it is "one-percent art for the ninety-nine percent."

Behold The Throne: There's A Golden Toilet At The Guggenheim

5:43pm September 15, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Museum-goers, prepare for "unprecedented intimacy with a work of art." Starting Friday, visitors will be able to use Maurizio Cattelan's America, a gold-cast, working toilet at the New York museum.

London's Bridget, falling down. Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) in Bridget Jones's Baby.

Arts

'Bridget Jones's Baby' Is High-Spirited And Playful

5:27pm September 15, 2016

by Ella Taylor

Our critic Ella Taylor loves this "generous, candid" sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, in which the now fortysomething Bridget willfully faces down new professional and romantic challenges.

A 1980 accident at a Titan II missile solo outside Little Rock, Arkansas is the focus of the documentary Command and Control.

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In Chilling Documentary 'Command And Control,' A Nuclear Explosion Narrowly Avoided

5:00pm September 15, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

In 1980, a socket dropped from a worker's wrench nearly spelled nuclear disaster at a Titan II missile silo outside Little Rock, Arkansas.

One Small Step: Owen Williams and Matt Johnson in Operation Avalanche.

Arts

'Operation Avalanche': A Fake Documentary About A Faked Moon Landing

5:00pm September 15, 2016

by Andrew Lapin

A cleverly constructed but narratively sluggish mockumentary exposes a NASA conspiracy to stage Man's first steps on the moon.

Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner: Lane (Wes Robinson) and Talia LIons(Valorie Curry) in Blair Witch.

Arts

Into The Woods, But Out Of Ideas: A Tedious, Ugly, Pointless 'Blair Witch'

5:00pm September 15, 2016

by Chris Klimek

Ding-Dong, a Witch Retread: A sequel to the "found-footage" horror sensation The Blair Witch Project never manages to find a compelling reason to exist.

The 'Racial Cleansing' That Drove 1,100 Black Residents Out Of Forsyth County, Ga.

2:07pm September 15, 2016

In 1912, white mobs set fire to black churches and black-owned businesses. Eventually the entire black population of Forsyth County was driven out, says Blood at the Root author Patrick Phillips.

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Books
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Language Is Home In 'When In French'

1:36pm September 15, 2016

by Heller McAlpin

When New Yorker writer and native North Carolinian Lauren Collins married a French man, she set herself to the task of learning French. Her new memoir is a meditation on language and identity.

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'Jerusalem' Is Alan Moore's Really Big Book — In Every Way

11:27am September 15, 2016

by Jason Sheehan

The legendary comics creator spent 10 years on his latest work, a 1,200-page-plus epic about everything, nothing and Northampton, his home town and sacred ground — which serves as the main character.

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Arts

Colson Whitehead, John Lewis, Rita Dove Among National Book Award Nominees

10:15am September 15, 2016

by Colin Dwyer

And then there were 40: This week, the National Book Foundation revealed the writers who are still in contention for its literary prize. It capped the rollout Thursday with the fiction nominees.

Tim Gunn says the fashion industry needs to adjust itself to take advantage of the market for plus-size clothing.

Arts

Tim Gunn: The Fashion Industry Is Not Making It Work For Plus-Size Women

9:30am September 15, 2016

by NPR Staff

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Tim Gunn, a fixture in the fashion world, about his article in The Washington Post in which he blasted the industry for ignoring plus-size women.

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