Arts & Culture

A comedy legend struggling to stay on top and a young writer tasked with helping her — that's the premise of a new TV series Hacks. NPR's Scott Simon talks with co-creator Jen Statsky about it.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author Stacey Swann about her debut novel, Olympus Texas.

There has been a trading card accreditation bonanza that is leading to massive backlogs, hiring shortages, and big money as people seek to determine the worth of their Pokemon cards.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ian Manuel about his new memoir, My Time Will Come, about his incarceration at the age of 14 and eventual release in 2016.

A new documentary Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street recounts how the classic program reinvented children's television and continues to interpret the world with authenticity.

Symone is brilliant in the art of lip synch, so we've invited her to play a game called "Lip synch meet fix sink." Three questions about plumbers.

The Spanish-American war serves as the backdrop for Chanel Cleeton's new novel, which follows a real-life rebel named Evangelina Cisneros, who attracted a lot of attention from American newspapers.

Rachel Cusk follows her acclaimed Outline trilogy with this story about a woman whose lifelong obsession with a truculent painter is tested when he comes to stay at a cottage on her property.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Marilyn Agrelo, director of the new documentary Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street, and actor Sonia Manzano, who played Maria on Sesame Street.

Two films loaded with family sentiment are just in time for Mother's Day. Billy Crystal's Here Today co-stars Tiffany Haddish. Daniel Oyelowo's directing debut The Water Man co-stars Rosario Dawson.