Fresh Air Weekend : NPR

St. Vincent offers tension, release and sonic "jump scares" on All Born Screaming. Child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz says kids are experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety and depression.

https://npr.org/2024/04/27/1247135991/fresh-air-weekend-st-vincent-kids-and-mental-health

Green's YA novel, Turtles All The Way Down, has been recently adapted to film. Green described living with OCD, and how "one little thought" could take over his mind, in this 2017 interview.

https://npr.org/2024/04/26/1247170311/novelist-john-green-says-ocd-is-like-an-invasive-weed-inside-his-mind

Three superb actors — Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor — star in this sweaty, sexy, entertaining drama about tennis stars with a very complicated past.

https://npr.org/2024/04/26/1247149132/challenges-review-zendaya-tennis

Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flux. Harpers journalist Daniel Bessner says TV and film writers are feeling the brunt of the chan...

https://npr.org/2024/04/25/1246886718/how-streaming-mergers-and-other-major-changes-are-upending-hollywood

The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects 1,304 letters, starting with one she wrote at age 11. Her singular voice comes into its own in the letters of the 1860s, which often blur into poems.

https://npr.org/2024/04/25/1246249850/emily-dickinsons-letters-review

Though Swift performs a range of experience and emotions, the music on her 11th album feels thin and is often in service of lyrics that could have used a red pencil.

https://npr.org/2024/04/24/1246723559/taylor-swifts-confessional-tortured-poets-would-have-benefitted-from-an-edit

Walters was the first woman to co-anchor a national news show on prime time television. "The path she cut is one that many of us have followed," says biographer Susan Page, author of The Rulebrea...

https://npr.org/2024/04/24/1246719526/barbara-walters-rulebreaker-susan-page

"I'm not playing with persona," St. Vincent says of All Born Screaming. "It's a really a record about life and death and love. That's it. That's all we got."

https://npr.org/2024/04/23/1246593330/st-vincent-all-born-screaming

Journalist Ari Berman says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated power in the hands of an elite minority — and that their decisions continue to impact American democracy today...

https://npr.org/2024/04/22/1246297603/ari-berman-minority-rule-electoral-college

Rushdie revisits the knife attack that nearly killed him in a new book. Ken Tucker reviews Tierra Whack's new album. A Black women drives the narrative in Kilpatrick's new murder mystery show.

https://npr.org/2024/04/20/1245286757/salman-rushdie-diarra-from-detroit-kilpatrick