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"We need to have a protagonist with detailed, believable motivation," Emily Wilson tells Fresh Air. "[But] these desires seem stripped from [Nolan's] Odysseus. He doesn't seem to want food. He doesn't seem to want sex. What does he want?" npr.org/2026/07/29/nx-s1-591…

'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn't have written the movie himself

The renowned classics scholar caused a stir when her critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey went viral. Wilson explains her reaction to the film and why she's translating the poem again.

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Tomorrow Weds 7/29: Translator and classicist Emily Wilson on her Odyssey review (and much more)
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Laverne Cox in-studio with co-host Tonya Mosley on her childhood, her break-through on Orange is the New Black, and how music and dance saved her. youtube.com/watch?v=-fxP8j5J…

Laverne Cox Says She Was Blamed For Her Own Bullying

For more than a decade, actor Laverne Cox has been one of the most ...

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“As Katharine Hepburn used to say: ‘I'd rather fail at something difficult than succeed at something that comes too easily.’” My conversation with Nathan Lane, for @nprfreshair. npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-580…

Nathan Lane says 'Death of a Salesman' is 'the most rewarding thing I've done'

Lane is nominated for a Tony for his portrayal of Arthur Miller's iconic salesman: "When people come back and talk about it, if they're not weeping, they're saying things like, 'You were my father.'"

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Terry was on Colbert last night and it was really special. youtube.com/watch?v=WCkgi-yZ…
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thank you @nprfreshair. "In his new book, Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster, Soboroff offers a minute-by-minute account of the catastrophe... He says covering the wildfires was [his] most important assignment." npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-566…

'Everything I knew burned down around me': A journalist looks back on LA's fires

Jacob Soboroff was raised in the Pacific Palisades and reported live from the area as it was devastated by fire in 2025. In Firestorm, Soboroff offers a minute-by-minute account of the catastrophe.

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Rob Reiner told Terry Gross he asked to change his name when he was 8 years old...
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Just this past September Rob Reiner spoke with Terry Gross about supporting Nick through his struggle with addiction. npr.org/2025/12/16/nx-s1-564…

Rob Reiner said he was 'never, ever too busy' for his son

In 2015, Reiner collaborated with his son, Nick Reiner, on Being Charlie, a story about addiction, loosely based on Nick's experiences. Rob Reiner talked about the film with Fresh Air in September.

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Just this past September Rob Reiner spoke with Terry Gross about supporting Nick through his struggle with addiction. npr.org/2025/12/16/nx-s1-564…

Rob Reiner said he was 'never, ever too busy' for his son

In 2015, Reiner collaborated with his son, Nick Reiner, on Being Charlie, a story about addiction, loosely based on Nick's experiences. Rob Reiner talked about the film with Fresh Air in September.

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"If you are young and feel like you cannot rent an apartment, you cannot make your life, you cannot buy a house, you cannot start an apprenticeship, you cannot get a job — why would you not look above you and say 'F- you'? That makes complete sense to me." -Zadie Smith npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-s1-564…

Zadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old'

Smith was 25 in 2000 when she published her critically acclaimed first novel. Now 50, her latest collection of essays, Dead and Alive, reflects on middle age, climate change and generational gaps.

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"My son went to Halloween this year dressed as Batman, which is a character I played — famously the worst Batman in the history of the franchise," George Clooney says. "And I literally said to him, 'You know, I was Batman,' and he was like, 'Yeah, not really.'" npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-562…

George Clooney's kids don't care about his success (and that's a good thing)

In Jay Kelly, Clooney plays an emotionally stunted movie star struggling with work and family life. He can relate: "We're all balancing it. We're never getting it perfect."

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"[When] I'm in a situation where I'm interviewing someone, capturing their story, making pictures, I feel most like myself," @lynseyaddario tells contributor @SamFragoso. npr.org/2025/12/02/nx-s1-562…

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on balancing work and family — when work is a war zone

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has been kidnapped and thrown from a car. Still, Addario says, parenting two young kids can be more challenging than war reporting.

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Review: Sarah Snook plays a mother desperately trying to locate her 5-year-old son in this gripping Peacock miniseries. The psychological thriller is adapted from Andrea Mara's novel All Her Fault. npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-559…

A child disappears from a playdate and it's 'All Her Fault' in this gripping TV series

Sarah Snook plays a mother desperately trying to locate her 5-year-old son in this gripping Peacock miniseries. The psychological thriller is adapted from Andrea Mara's novel All Her Fault.

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Watch Judd Apatow's full interview now on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=2APAOS8r…

Judd Apatow on life as a "Comedy Nerd" | Fresh Air

Judd Apatow has been making people laugh for more than 30 years. He...

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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI | @nprfreshair npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-557…

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Cameron Crowe talks with Terry Gross about his teen years on the road and backstage as a rock journalist for Rolling Stone. npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-558…

Why Cameron Crowe wears 'uncool' as a badge of honor

Crowe was just 15 years old when he became a music journalist in 1973. He had to talk his mom into letting him go on the road with bands. He chronicles his adventures in his new memoir, The Uncool.

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"AI, particularly generative AI — I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak." -Guillermo del Toro npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-557…

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Terry Gross with Jane Goodall in 1993. youtube.com/watch?v=teXnfomc…
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Icelandic jazz-pop star Laufey spoke with Terry Gross about her classical training in cello, breaking out online during COVID, and her first arena tour. npr.org/2025/10/08/nx-s1-556…

Laufey was an 'odd fish' in native Iceland. Now she's a jazz-pop star

The Grammy Award-winning singer and musician had rigorous classical training. Now she's making music that crosses genres: "I've been inspired by Golden Age films, the va-va-voom of it all," she says.

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For the first seven years of her life, comic ​Cristela Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. She talks about it in her new special, 'Upper Classy.' npr.org/2025/09/29/nx-s1-555…

Comic Cristela Alonzo grew up in fear of border patrol. ICE has 'brought it all back'

For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy.

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Our film critic @JustinCChang calls 'One Battle After Another' "a prescient, mesmerizing, frequently hilarious and fearlessly political piece of work." 👇His review. npr.org/2025/09/26/nx-s1-555…

Prescient and political, 'One Battle After Another' is one of the year's best films

Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio is a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. It weaves zany dark comedy, sociopolitical satire and controlled narrative chaos.

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