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John Turturro says he likes trying new things (even pickpocketing)

Lifting wallets was part of Turturro's training for the film The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. In it, he plays a small-time thief who's also the primary caretaker for his ailing wife.
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Fresh Air Weekend: 'La Bola Negra' filmmakers; Inside 'The Two Saddest Kitchens'

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi say filmmaking is a weapon against intolerance. Justin Chang reviews Possible Love. New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein reveal "sad" kitchens.
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'La Bola Negra' falls short of its maximalist ambitions

The new Spanish drama seeks to be a queer-cinema monument for the ages, weaving together three stories about gay men living through times of Fascism and freedom.
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Kazuo Ishiguro on 'Klara and the Sun' and writing novels about the future

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist says he honed his skills while working as a songwriter. Now, Ishiguro's 2021 novel Klara and the Sun has been adapted to film. Originally broadcast March 17, 2021.
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Who benefits when massive AI data centers come to town?

The battle over data centers is hitting the ballot box. Brookings scholar Darrell West talks about how the backlash against the AI boom, flock cameras and tech companies is crossing party lines.
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Thomas Mann returns to his 'Fatherland' in this practically flawless film

Fatherland imagines the Nobel Prize-winning author's 1949 return to Germany after years of exile. Just 82 minutes long, this gorgeous film is meticulously staged and shot in black and white.
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New book revisits the 2023 killing of an unhoused man in crisis on the NYC subway

Jordan Neely was frightening fellow passengers. A former Marine named Daniel Penny put Neely into a chokehold, killing him. Journalist Anand Giridharadas investigates the incident in Man in the Mirror.
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Filmmaking is 'our weapon against intolerance,' say 'La Bola Negra' directors

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi have turned four pages of an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca into a sweeping epic that spans 90 years of Spanish history, focusing on the stories of gay men.
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These 'Seven Stories About Tammy' add up to one brilliant piece of writing

Elizabeth McCracken's connected short stories chronicle a family's encounters with their eldest son's girlfriend and eventual wife. This slim collection is so engaging, you may want to read it twice.
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'New Yorker' cartoonists confess to the horrors lurking in their kitchens

Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein discuss roaches, molding food and dysfunctional appliances. Their new graphic memoir, The Two Saddest Kitchens, reveals it all.
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