How To ‘Thrive’: Short Commutes, More Happy Hours
Many people believe that happiness comes from money, or youth or beauty, but Dan Buettner would respectfully disagree. Buettner visited …
Poet Marie Howe On ‘What The Living Do’ After Loss
A few years after her younger brother John died from AIDS-related complications in 1989, poet Marie Howe wrote him a …
Read ‘Graveyard’ With Our New Back-Seat Book Club
We are starting a special project at NPR aimed at our younger listeners. We’re talking about all those young people …
William Shatner Covers ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ And Yes, It’s Very Weird
I really don’t know what to say. I really don’t. Except for this, I guess: Spacemouth. And this: WHAT? Shatner …
‘Damned’ Teens In Hell: A Condemned Coming Of Age
Madison Spencer wants you to forget everything you’ve learned about hell. To be fair, she’s something of an expert. The …
Real ‘Sybil’ Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake
When Sybil first came out in 1973, not only did it shoot to the top of the best-seller lists — …
Amy Poehler: Playing Politics, But Only On Television
Amy Poehler joined Saturday Night Live in 2001 — a time, she says, when no one was really sure comedy …
Behind the Scenes With Amy Poehler: From Pawnee to The White House
On NBC’s Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler plays a deputy parks director who dreams of one day working her way …
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Something Batman This Way Comes: The Many Pleasures Of ‘Arkham City’
Perhaps the best way to explain the magnificent depth of Batman: Arkham City is to say playing this videogame is …
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