Fresh Air
Weekdays at noon and Fresh Air Weekend Saturdays at 7pm on Radio IQ
Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program. The veteran public radio interviewer is known for her extraordinary ability to engage guests of all dispositions. Every weekday she delights intelligent and curious listeners with revelations on contemporary societal concerns.
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Roberts plays a Yale professor whose life unravels after one of her colleagues is accused of sexually assaulting a student. After the Hunt is an academic potboiler that muddles its central issue. -
President Trump is deploying National Guard troops to U.S. cities, erasing "woke" in the military and striking alleged drug boats off Venezuela. The Atlantic's Nancy Youssef discusses what this means.
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The Grammy Award-winning singer and musician had rigorous classical training. Now she's making music that crosses genres: "I've been inspired by Golden Age films, the va-va-voom of it all," she says. -
Swift's previous albums focused on the love she yearned for. The dozen songs on her latest release combine to form a picture of true love found, tested and proven strong.
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It's been 50 years since the Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer died. But watching reruns of The Twilight Zone confirms that the themes Serling tackled remain relevant.
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Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to find jobs have left, families are struggling and old friends now embrace conspiracy theories. Her new memoir is Paper Girl.
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Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.
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This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Negin Farsad, special guest Becca Mann and panelists Shantira Jackson, Hari Kondabolu, and Adam Felber -
Squibb explains how she lobbied Johansson to direct Eleanor The Great. Ronson's memoir, Night People, is a love letter to late-night 1990s New York City. -
This is an epic novel to be savored. At nearly 700 pages, this multi-character, multi-stranded story explores exile and displacement — not only from one's home, but also from one's own sense of self.
