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'Leviathan' And 'Red Army' Deliver A Peek Inside Russia, Now And Then

1:27pm January 21, 2015

by John Powers

Leviathan follows a man who fights back after a corrupt mayor uses eminent domain to claim his house, and Red Army recounts the story of the Soviet Union's famous hockey team.

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'Gateway To Freedom': Heroes, Danger And Loss On The Underground Railroad

11:35am January 21, 2015

While writing his new book, historian Eric Foner relied on a recently discovered record of slaves' escapes. He says the documents paint a "revealing picture" of life on the Underground Railroad.

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Three-Minute Fiction Round 10: Leave A Message After The Beep

11:07am January 21, 2015

by NPR Staff

This round of the short story contest for weekends on All Things Considered will be judged by author Mona Simpson. For Round 10, she wants original fiction with the "texture of voice."

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A Perspective on Moving Forward in Les Caison III's "Looking Up" Exhibit

8:52am January 21, 2015

by David Ford

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Chris Hemsworth plays hacker and furloughed convict Nicholas Hathaway in Blackhat.

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'Blackhat': A Classic Detective Story For A Brave New World

7:07pm January 20, 2015

by NPR Staff

Over his years as a director, Michael Mann has taken on many crime stories. In his new film, malware is a central villain and the hero battles an adversary who resides in the virtual world.

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Larry Wilmore brought The Nightly Show to Comedy Central on Monday night.

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An Uneven But Auspicious 'Nightly' Opener

3:24pm January 20, 2015

by Linda Holmes

Larry Wilmore's The Nightly Show has a few things to iron out with its long panel segment, but his anchor-desk work is tops.

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Resurrections, Do-Overs, And Second Lives: A 2015 Poetry Preview

3:23pm January 20, 2015

After the troubles of 2014, critic Craig Morgan Teicher offers up a full shelf of poetry for a brand new year — offering no solutions, but full of ambivalence and precision, balm and fire.

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Exclusive First Read: Scott McCloud's 'The Sculptor'

2:35pm January 20, 2015

by NPR Staff

Understanding Comics creator Scott McCloud is sometimes called the "Aristotle of comics" for his analysis of the medium. The Sculptor, a meditation on love, art and death, is his first graphic novel.

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'The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore' Debuts In Slot Vacated By Stephen Colbert

2:02pm January 20, 2015

by David Bianculli

On Monday night, Comedy Central premiered former Daily Show correspondent Larry Wilmore's new show. While Wilmore's sarcastic comments on clips were funny, the round-table discussion didn't sparkle.

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'Whipping Boy' Is Part Memoir, Part Crime Thriller

12:03pm January 20, 2015

by Jason Heller

Allen Kurzweil's new book Whipping Boy starts out as the story of his obsessive 40-year search for the boy who bullied him at boarding school — but it becomes something much deeper and stranger.