Arts & Life

Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Author Victor Davis Hanson On 2016 Election

8:44am September 10, 2016

Victor Davis Hanson, "Carnage and Culture" author and a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, talks politics with Scott Simon. He calls the election cycle a continuation of populist outrage.

Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure, by Ann M. Martin and Annie Parnell

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'Missy Piggle-Wiggle' Brings Magical Cures To The Modern World

8:29am September 10, 2016

by Petra Mayer

60 years ago, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cured your parenting problems with Leadership Pills, well-mannered pigs and Ignorance Tonic. Now, her niece Missy takes up the mantle in a new series of books.

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'The Fortunes' Is A Resonant Account Of The Chinese Immigrant Experience

7:00am September 10, 2016

by Michael Schaub

Peter Ho Davies' new novel tells four separate stories, from a 19th-century tycoon and his Chinese valet to the murder of a Chinese American man in 1982. It's a revelatory, deftly structured read.

Thinking Of Leaving Home? Here's A Bit Of Advice From Young Adult Authors

6:01am September 10, 2016

Starting that next chapter can be difficult in any young person's life. And YA writers know it well. Sandra Cisneros, Jacqueline Woodson, Tamora Pierce and Jason Reynolds offer some words of wisdom.

In Sully, Tom Hanks plays Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the airplane captain whose unprecedented landing on the Hudson River on Jan. 15, 2009, saved the lives of 155 passengers.

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An Unforgettable 208-Second Flight Creates A Bureaucratic Frenzy In 'Sully'

6:16pm September 09, 2016

by David Edelstein

A new film stars Tom Hanks as the airline captain who made an emergency landing on the Hudson in 2009. Critic David Edelstein says that Sully's flight sequence is by far the best part of the film.

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Margaret Atwood: 'I Finally Got To Do My Cat With Wings'

5:57pm September 09, 2016

by NPR Staff

As a child, Atwood loved drawing flying cats. Now, nearly 70 years later, Atwood's dream has been realized in a graphic novel called Angel Catbird. "I'm very fond of him," she says.

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Justin Tipping's Directorial Debut Follows Young Man's Pursuit Of His 'Kicks'

5:57pm September 09, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to director Justin Tipping, whose debut feature film Kicks is out now. The movie focuses on a young black man living in an inner-city neighborhood in California, and the lengths he goes to retrieve his stolen vintage sneakers.

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Savannah Mourns Lady Chablis From 'Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil'

4:31pm September 09, 2016

by Gabrielle Ware

The 1994 best selling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil introduced the world to many of the eccentric characters in Savannah, Ga. Perhaps none was more popular than Lady Chablis, who also played herself in the movie. The transgender performer died this week and her hometown is remembering her.

'NeuroTribes' Examines The History — And Myths — Of The Autism Spectrum

1:27pm September 09, 2016

Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans and a discredited scientific paper about childhood vaccines shaped our current understanding of autism. Originally broadcast Sept. 2, 2015.

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Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in Loving.

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TIFF Diary, Day 1: 'Loving,' 'Magnificent Seven,' 'Salesman,' 'Jean of the Joneses'

12:00pm September 09, 2016

by Linda Holmes

In Linda Holmes' first dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival, she reviews films about a civil rights case, gunslinging, a strained marriage and a warm, talky family.