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ListenJavier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi say filmmaking is a weapon against intolerance. Justin Chang reviews Possible Love. New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein reveal "sad" kitchens.
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ListenThe new Spanish drama seeks to be a queer-cinema monument for the ages, weaving together three stories about gay men living through times of Fascism and freedom.
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ListenThe Nobel Prize-winning novelist says he honed his skills while working as a songwriter. Now, Ishiguro's 2021 novel Klara and the Sun has been adapted to film. Originally broadcast March 17, 2021.
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ListenThe battle over data centers is hitting the ballot box. Brookings scholar Darrell West talks about how the backlash against the AI boom, flock cameras and tech companies is crossing party lines.
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ListenFatherland imagines the Nobel Prize-winning author's 1949 return to Germany after years of exile. Just 82 minutes long, this gorgeous film is meticulously staged and shot in black and white.
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ListenJordan Neely was frightening fellow passengers. A former Marine named Daniel Penny put Neely into a chokehold, killing him. Journalist Anand Giridharadas investigates the incident in Man in the Mirror.
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ListenJavier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi have turned four pages of an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca into a sweeping epic that spans 90 years of Spanish history, focusing on the stories of gay men.
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ListenElizabeth McCracken's connected short stories chronicle a family's encounters with their eldest son's girlfriend and eventual wife. This slim collection is so engaging, you may want to read it twice.
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ListenRoz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein discuss roaches, molding food and dysfunctional appliances. Their new graphic memoir, The Two Saddest Kitchens, reveals it all.
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ListenNdegeocello reflects on her musical influences. Ken Tucker reviews a new release of Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Gilpin seeks out "anti-algorithm" roles in The Lowdown and Widow's Bay.