Culture

Friday, August 2, 2024

• These are the 19 movies we're most excited about this summer
• NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2024
• What to watch this summer: Here are the TV shows we're looking forward to
• The best games of 2024 so far, picked by NPR's staff
• On the centennial of his birth, James Baldwin remains relevant today
• 'Miss Merkel' imagines the former German chancellor as a small-town amateur sleuth
• The misunderstood humor of political memes
• Decades in the making, Chris Wilcha's documentary 'Flipside' is now out on demand
• A woman remembers the nurse who showed uncommon tenderness toward her dying mother
• Five takeaways by a longtime NABJ member from Trump’s appearance before Black journalists
• Remembering writer Gail Lumet Buckley
• Remembering Freedom Singer Bernice Johnson Reagon
• Celebrating James Baldwin, on what would have been his 100th birthday
• Brittany Howard on Prince, breakup songs and giving 'everything and leaving nothing'
• A conspicuously dressed-down shooter won Olympic silver. Then he went viral
• Abby Wambach has won 2 gold medals. She says real success came later
• 'House Of The Dragon' season 2 makes it Rhaen(yra)
• 'Kneecap' is a profane, political and funny origin story of the Irish hip hip group
• In 1989, a big gray brick with a tiny monochrome screen became gaming's new smash hit
• A Norwegian swimmer's love affair with chocolate muffins may be winning the Olympics