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News Articles: Fresh Air

Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) travels to Thailand in Season 3 of <em>The White Lotus.</em><br>

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Natasha Rothwell on checking into 'The White Lotus' Thailand: 'It felt like home'

In the new season of The White Lotus, Rothwell reprises her role of spa manager Belinda, a woman "on the precipice of change" as she straddles the line between guest and staffer.

February 27, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Book Reviews

'Last Seen': After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones

Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.

February 27, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book Reviews

After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs

Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.

February 24, 2025
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  • John Powers
A 3-year-old receives a COVID-19 vaccine on June 21, 2022.

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A pediatrician warns of 'long-lasting' consequences of RFK Jr. leading HHS

Adam Ratner predicts the appointment of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to unscare them," he says.

February 18, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks

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Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks writes a beautiful memoir of grief

Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also reflects on the life she might have lived had they not met.

February 18, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
James Earl Jones and<em> </em>Lynn Redgrave are an eccentric pair in <em>The Annihilation of Fish.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

This long-buried 1999 film offers a new chance to see James Earl Jones

There are many reasons to seek out Charles Burnett's long-buried 1999 film, but perhaps primary among them: The rare chance to see Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder and James Earl Jones share the screen.

February 14, 2025
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  • Justin Chang
<br>Morgana O'Reilly, Arnas Fedaravičius, Christian Friedel, Dom Hetrakul and Lalisa Manobal play resort workers in Season 3 of <em>The White Lotus.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

'The White Lotus' lands in Thailand for its most soul-searching season yet

Though less effervescent than past, The White Lotus Season 3 serves up plenty of financial secrets, dark family histories and kinky hijinks as it shoves its characters out of their comfort zone.

February 13, 2025
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  • John Powers
The musician and documentary filmmaker Questlove says that music Sly Stone created in the 1960s and 1970s laid the foundation for the pop, R&B and funk sounds we hear today.

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Questlove confronts the 'burden of Black genius' in a new Sly Stone documentary

In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will be ... the first domino in a long list of people that will self-sabotage."

February 10, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
<em>I'm Still Here, </em>starring Selton Mello and Fernanda Torres, has been nominated for a best picture Oscar.

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  • Movie Reviews

A family endures a dictatorship in the Oscar-nominated 'I'm Still Here'

A Brazilian family is rocked when the father disappears following a military coup. I'm Still Here tells the heroic true story of a wife and mother who steers her family through the rapids of tyranny.

February 07, 2025
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  • John Powers
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, by Kay Sohini

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  • Book Reviews

'Coming to New York' stories are alive and well in these two new books

Kay Sohini's graphic memoir, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, tells a story of migration and redefinition. Gay Talese gathers many of his great pieces about the city in A Town Without Time.

February 06, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Brittany Newell's writing has appeared in <em>The New York Times, Joyland</em> and <em>Playgirl</em>.

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  • Author Interviews

A pro dominatrix and novelist says empathy, curiosity and bravery are key to both jobs

After publishing her first novel when she was 21, Brittany Newell started working as a dominatrix. The job gave her time to write — and plenty of material to draw from. Her new novel is Soft Core.

February 06, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Ariana Grande initially auditioned for both witch roles in <em>Wicked,</em> but "I knew I was Glinda," she says.

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  • Movie Interviews

Ariana Grande says 'Wicked' was a gift — and she's proud to be in a 'beautiful coven'

As a kid, Grande loved singing karaoke with her family. "I looked up to Whitney and Mariah and Celine endlessly," she says. "I think that's a large part of the reason why I learned to sing."

February 04, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Sarah Wildman and Orli, photographed in early summer 2021. Orli was finishing a second round of chemotherapy after her liver cancer had metastasized when she was asked to participate in a project chronicling the beauty of baldness.

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  • Children's Health

'I wanted to buy her time': A mother looks back on her daughter's terminal cancer

Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died at age 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What do you think I did to deserve this?' And of course, that's not an answerable question," Wildman says.

February 03, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
"No Other Land" tells the story of a Palestinian town in the West Bank that was bulldozed by the Israeli government for use as a military training zone.

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  • Movie Reviews

Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers team up to create 'No Other Land'

This Oscar-nominated documentary, which tells the story of the Israeli military's demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, was created by a team of two Palestinian and two Israeli filmmakers.

January 31, 2025
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  • Justin Chang

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  • Book Reviews

Secrets feed on time in the masterful novel 'Mothers and Sons'

Adam Haslett's compelling novel focuses on the strained relationship between an asylum lawyer and his mother. It's a beautiful appreciation of the all-too-human mess of life.

January 31, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
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