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  • The Year's Most Mesmerizing Mysteries

    at NPR – Fri Dec 11, 1:00 am ET  

    Holiday season have you feeling a touch homicidal? Critic Maureen Corrigan offers a selection of sleuth stories and hard-boiled whodunits to satisfy all your deepest literary desires. Full Story »

  • Author: Santa Claus Relies On Robots, Gadgetry

    at NPR – Fri Dec 11, 12:00 am ET  

    Every Christmas, Santa Claus uses advanced technology to accomplish his seemingly impossible duties. In the new book The Truth about Santa, science writer Gregory Mone explains. Full Story »

  • In '60s L.A., A Somber, Stylish Encounter With Grief

    at NPR – Thu Dec 10, 10:00 pm ET  

    Fashion designer Tom Ford makes a stylish debut with A Single Man, starring Colin Firth as a closeted gay man struggling with solitude after his longtime partner is killed in a car crash. Critic Bob Mondello says the film is a visually sensitive tale of a man learning at last to live in the moment. (Recommended) Full Story »

  • 'The Lovely Bones,' Ever So Slightly Disarranged

    at NPR – Thu Dec 10, 10:00 pm ET  

    Saoirse Ronan brings an appealing naturalness to the part of a murdered girl looking down on the world that survived her, but our critic says Peter Jackson's film doesn't quite achieve the delicate balance of moods and methods that made Alice Sebold's novel such an oddly comforting tale of horror. Full Story »

  • In An Upended Nation, An Unlikely Play For Unity

    at NPR – Thu Dec 10, 10:00 pm ET  

    An impressively natural performance by Morgan Freeman anchors the true tale of a stunningly successful political gambit from Nelson Mandela: a move to bring his divided nation together behind a rugby team that had long been the darlings of South Africa's oppressive Afrikaner majority. Full Story »

  • 'My Son, My Son': Matricide The Herzog Way

    at NPR – Thu Dec 10, 8:00 pm ET  

    When surrealist filmmakers Werner Herzog and David Lynch collaborate on a film, the result is ... well, exactly what you might expect. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is loosely based on a true story of a man's murder of his mother — and it's another defiantly odd Herzog study of a fiercely alienated individual in an unforgiving world. Full Story »

  • Classic TV on DVD Makes A Personalized Holiday Gift

    at NPR – Thu Dec 10, 11:19 am ET  

    For those looking for gifts for the holiday season, TV critic David Bianculli has a few suggestions—recently released DVD sets of old and new TV shows. Match the right shows to the right recipients, he suggests, and the gift becomes hours and hours of passive pleasure. Full Story »

  • Still Waiting For Disney's First Black Prince

    at NPR – Thu Dec 10, 10:51 am ET  

    Princess Tiana, the newest addition to Disney's slew of royal beauties, is a long-overdue tribute to black women in America. But despite the positive role model she'll become, her love interest in The Princess and the Frog is, oddly, not black. Full Story »

  • Mueller's Nobel-Winning Memories Of A Small Town

    at NPR – Thu Dec 10, 10:21 am ET  

    Romanian novelist Herta Mueller was awarded the 2009 literature prize for her depictions of "the landscape of the dispossessed." Her first novel, Nadirs, has just been reissued. Critic Alan Cheuse has a review. Full Story »

  • Librarian Nancy Pearl's Under-The-Radar Gift Books

    at NPR – Thu Dec 10, 4:53 am ET  

    The end of another year means another giant stack of books you missed during the past 12 months. Nancy Pearl, our favorite librarian, stops by to share recommendations that should keep old, young and 'tween readers content. Full Story »

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