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News Articles: Fresh Air

Andrew Scott starred in the Netflix series <em>Ripley</em>, which was the most stunningly shot show TV critic David Bianculli saw in 2024.

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  • TV Reviews

In 2024, our TV critic was grateful for fantastic shows and familiar faces

Fresh Air critic David Bianculli watches more TV than anyone he knows. He found it impossible to come up with a top 10 list this year — and is reveling in the abundance of exceptional shows.

December 18, 2024
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  • David Bianculli
Billie Eilish performs onstage during in New York City in May 2024.

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  • Music

Billie Eilish thought she'd always have a soft voice. Singing lessons changed that

The Grammy Award-winning singer says working with a vocal coach "honestly changed my life." Eilish and her brother/collaborator Finneas talk about their new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.

December 17, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Stephen and Evie McGee Colbert have been married since 1993.

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  • Food

'Does This Taste Funny?' is a Colbert family cookbook

What do cooking and a nightly TV show have in common? Both require "a little care, a little love and a little imagination," says Stephen Colbert. He and his wife Evie Colbert have written a cookbook.

December 12, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
When one of her friends is injured at a rally, Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami, center) becomes increasingly supportive of the movement challenging Iran's authoritarian regime.

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  • Movie Reviews

Shot in secret, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' calls out Iran's authoritarian regime

Earlier this year, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fled his country to escape an eight-year prison sentence. His new film centers on a middle class family grappling with Iran's social unrest.

December 11, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
Construction of this $1 billion luxury real estate development in Los Angeles stalled in 2019 after a China-based developer ran out of funding, leaving the three-tower project unfinished amid a housing crisis in the city.

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  • National

The U.S. is facing a severe housing shortage. Will Trump's proposals help?

The U.S. is short approximately four million homes. Wharton economist Ben Keys traces the beginning of the housing crisis to the 2008 financial meltdown — and says climate change is making things worse.

December 11, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Book Reviews

Maureen Corrigan picks her favorite books from an 'unprecedented' 2024

This year, our Fresh Air book critic highlights alternative history, suspense, satire — and some of the most extraordinary letters ever written. Here are Maureen Corrigan's 10 best books of 2024.

December 10, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
William Lee (Daniel Craig, right) falls for a freshly discharged U.S. Navy serviceman (Drew Starkey) in <em>Queer</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

In 'Queer,' Daniel Craig is outstanding as a fictionalized William S. Burroughs

In this adaptation of Burroughs' autobiographical novel, Craig plays an American who falls hard for a younger man in 1950s Mexico City. It's a singular performance, but also a deeply human one.

December 06, 2024
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  • Justin Chang

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  • Your Health

Stay away from Dr. Google, and other lessons learned about hypochondria

Caroline Crampton developed excessive health anxiety after being treated for cancer as a teen. In A Body Made of Glass she chronicles her experience with hypochondria and the history of the condition.

December 05, 2024
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Book Reviews

'Time of the Child' is a marvelous blend of despair and redemption

Set in a small Irish village in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1962, Niall Williams' latest novel avoids cliché by investing specificity and life into characters and places.

December 04, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Mickalene Thomas' 2015 work "Afro Goddess Looking Forward." <em>Rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel</em>

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  • Fine Art

Mickalene Thomas makes art that 'gives Black women their flowers'

Thomas' work puts Black women front and center. "We've been supportive characters for far too long," she says. "I would describe my art as radically shifting notions of beauty by reclaiming space."

December 03, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Bailey Williams is a storyteller and yoga teacher in Alaska.

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  • Author Interviews

'I think of my body as a teacher,' says Marine who struggled with disordered eating

During her years as a military linguist, Bailey Williams pushed her body to extremes. Her new book is Hollow: A Memoir of My Body in the Marines.

November 25, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in <em>Wicked</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

'Gladiator II' and 'Wicked' are lavish spectacles — but are they another Barbenheimer?

Two big-budget films are set to battle at the box office: Wicked offers a gravity-defying origin story for the Wicked Witch of the West, while Gladiator II revisits the violence of ancient Rome.

November 22, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
Ted Danson stars as a widowed retiree who goes undercover to solve a crime in a retirement community in<em> A Man on the Inside.</em>

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  • Television

How do you solve a crime at a retirement home? Get 'A Man on the Inside'

Michael Schur wrote for the The Office and created The Good Place. His new show for Netflix features Ted Danson as a widowed retiree who goes undercover in a retirement community.

November 21, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Then-President Donald Trump holds up <em>The Wall Street Journal </em>as he speaks at the White House on April 19, 2020.

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  • Media

Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way'

Former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron says he thinks Trump is "salivating for the opportunity to prosecute and imprison journalists." New Yorker editor David Remnick agrees.

November 20, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Selena Gomez in <em>Emilia Pérez.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Selena Gomez says 'Emilia Pérez' won't be her last Spanish language project

Gomez grew up speaking Spanish, but lost her fluency around the same time she began her Hollywood career as a kid. She spent months relearning the language for her latest role as the wife of a Mexican cartel boss.

November 19, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
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