Fresh Air

As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition. Writer Rana Foroohar explains the stakes in Sea Change.

The Two Saddest Kitchens is a comic conversation between Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein. Book critic Maureen Corrigan says it made her laugh and feel better about her own (lack of) cooking.

Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night, she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Rosalind Eleazar plays a once-successful Hollywood actor whose career has taken a downward turn in a film that takes viewers to bleaker places than they might anticipate.

Ali plays a devout Muslim family man, who also happens to be an assassin in Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. After decades in the business and two Oscars, he says he has less fear as an actor.

Somebody Somewhere actor Hill charts his own course in Showbiz! Maureen Corrigan reviews The Two Saddest Kitchen. Douglas reflects on his early life and Hollywood career in One Helluva Ride.

Cristian Mungiu's latest film takes place in a small Norwegian town, where a recently arrived couple stands accused of abusing their children — but in Fjord, the truth is never quite clear.

Prine died in 2020 from complications of COVID-19. To mark what would have been his 80th birthday, we listen to an interview from 2018 in which he talked about the surgeries that altered his voice.

Ryan has spent decades pressing presidents for answers. She talks about access, power, race and how asking questions put her in President Trump's crosshairs. Her new book is Notes on a Blacklash.

CBS' new drama series centers on a small legal firm in Silicon Valley that was created to do battle with the billionaire tech-company behemoths. Cupertino is funny, clever and amazingly current.