NPR Holiday Leftovers Presents: A 'Stollen' Recipe
Weekend Edition has been collecting holiday recipes from NPR staffers. This morning, we feature German Christmas Stollen, a favorite of NPR's Kim Bryant.
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'Christmas Days' Is A Feast Of Stories — And Food
For author Jeanette Winterson, Christmas is as much about food as it is about storytelling. So her new book Christmas Days combines stories with favorite recipes from her friends and family.
They Told Us So: Fantagraphics Turns 40
Fantagraphics is the publisher that brought literary respectability to comics. Their mammoth 40th anniversary volume, We Told You So, tends towards self-congratulation — but deservedly so.
'Longform' Podcast Names Best Magazine Articles Of 2016
NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Max Linsky, editor of the podcast and website, "Longform," about three of the best magazine articles of 2016 and why they're worth a read.
The Season Of Gifting: The Rise Of 'Gift' As A Verb
NPR explores the not exactly new but increasingly common use of the word "gift" as a verb.
What Do 'Jackie' And 'Neruda' Have In Common? Chilean Filmmaker Pablo Larraín
One film shows Jackie Kennedy as a new widow; the other follows poet Pablo Neruda into exile. But don't call them biopics; Larraín says, "You can't [capture] someone's life in ... 120 minutes."
'Soup For Syria': Chefs Share Recipes To Raise Funds For Refugees
A charity cookbook featuring soup recipes from Alice Waters, Anthony Bourdain and others, famous and not, has raised $300,000 so far for displaced Syrians. Why soup? It's a universal comfort food.
'The Man In The High Castle' Returns To Amazon For Season 2
The show imagines what it would be like if the axis countries had won World War II, and America was divided between Germany and Japan. The show's heroes struggle against totalitarianism.
U.S. Files Lawsuit Against ISIS Aimed At Recovering Looted Artifacts
The U.S. government filed a federal case Thursday aimed at recovering artifacts looted by ISIS. It centers on an ISIS leader believed to be involved in mistreatment of American hostage Kayla Mueller.
'Hidden Figures' No More: Meet The Black Women Who Helped Send America To Space
A new film tells the stories of three women who made incalculable contributions to the space program: engineer Mary Jackson, mathematician Katherine Johnson and NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan.