Arts & Life

"One of the jobs as an actor is we cannot judge our characters," Brian Cox says of the ruthless business tycoon he plays on Succession.

Arts

'Succession' actor Brian Cox can't defend Logan Roy, but he can relate to him

1:05pm January 18, 2022

by Terry Gross

Cox says the ruthless business tycoon he plays HBO's Succession is one of the most extraordinary roles he's ever taken: "He is a misanthrope [who] is very disappointed with the human experiment."

Sophie (Hilary Duff) and Valentina (Francia Raisa) star in How I Met Your Father, premiering Jan. 18 on Hulu.

Arts

'How I Met Your Father' tries to learn from a 'Mother' of mistakes

12:30pm January 18, 2022

by Linda Holmes

Years after the How I Met Your Mother finale left us with bad feelings, How I Met Your Father is premiering on Hulu. The concept is similar, but the chemistry and quirkiness may be hard to duplicate.

Kacey Musgraves performs in Las Vegas on Dec. 6, 2019.

'Wait Wait' for Jan. 15, 2022: With Not My Job guest Kacey Musgraves

11:29am January 18, 2022

Kacey Musgraves got her start in Austin, then left to conquer the world. She's about to do it all again on her Star-Crossed tour, but not before she answers our three questions about national anthems.

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'What Is Otherwise Infinite' asks for granular honesty in our search for meaning

6:16am January 18, 2022

by Jeevika Verma

In her fourth collection, poet Bianca Stone unites vulnerability and humor to tackle the heavy question of what it means to be alive.

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Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, by Bernardine Evaristo

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'Manifesto' is a story of dreams made real by never giving up

5:29am January 18, 2022

by Hope Wabuke

One of the foremost writers of the age, Bernardine Evaristo unwinds her career and life — giving us a nonfiction bildungsroman that is a towering monument to the creative life of Black women.

Reporter Chloe Veltman reacts to hearing her digital voice double, "Chloney," for the first time, with Speech Morphing chief linguist Mark Seligman.

Arts

Send in the clones: Using artificial intelligence to digitally replicate human voices

6:41pm January 17, 2022

by Chloe Veltman

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, it's never been easier or more affordable to make a perfect facsimile of a human voice: a celebrity, a world leader or even a public-radio reporter.

The Villa Aurora, a palace in Rome housing the only mural by Caravaggio and at the center of a messy legal battle between a Texas-born princess and the sons of her late husband, an Italian prince, will go up for auction on Jan. 18, 2022.

An epic inheritance fight will soon cost a Texas-born princess her 16th century villa

6:41pm January 17, 2022

by Sylvia Poggioli

After years of legal wrangling, the sprawling Roman villa filled with masterpieces from antiquity to the Renaissance will hit the auction block Tuesday with a starting price of $534 million.

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Laura Coates teaches law at George Washington University Law School and is a senior analyst for CNN. She also hosts The Laura Coates Show, on radio SiriusXM's Urban View.

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Arts

Attorney Laura Coates has witnessed the dissolution of voting rights first hand

7:00am January 17, 2022

by Terry Gross

While working for the Department of Justice, Coates says she saw voter rolls being purged and instances where polling places were moved to known Klan locations. Her new memoir is Just Pursuit.

Illustration of a person in miniature hiding underneath a tented wallet on a desk, peering out to a tablescape of bills, finance apps, a laptop, receipts and a few drinks, symbolizing hiding from money problems.

Arts

22 tips for 2022: Money problems don't just disappear. Here's how to face them

6:01am January 17, 2022

by Andee Tagle

Avoiding money issues is often at the expense of our longer-term financial — and mental — wellbeing. To upend problematic money behavior, try doing an audit of your last few money interactions.

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Christina Ricci as Misty, Juliette Lewis as Natalie, Tawny Cypress as Taissa and Melanie Lynskey as Shauna in Yellowjackets.

Arts

Your 'Yellowjackets' finale questions, answered

11:02pm January 16, 2022

by Linda Holmes

In the season finale of Showtime's Yellowjackets, some of the mysteries of what really happened to the team in 1996 got some resolution. Some didn't. We're here to sort it out.