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The title of The Sisters Brothers is both tongue-in-cheek and matter-of-fact. It's about two brothers with the last name Sisters: Eli Sisters and Charlie Sisters.

The whole movie is like that, a series of deadpan jokes wrapped in a shambling no-big-deal realism.

Fifty years ago, an oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara blew out, causing what was then the largest oil spill in U-S history.

AMC's decision to show its new six-hour miniseries The Little Drummer Girl over three consecutive nights is a smart strategy. This spy story, based on the bestselling novel by John Le Carré, begins at such a deliberate pace that it takes almost two hours before the central story line — the actual spy mission — is set in motion.

Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads both the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, usually doesn't say much in public. But recently, he's been on what amounts to a public relations blitz.

In July 2018, former Fox News co-President Bill Shine joined the White Housestaff as deputy chief of staff for communications and assistant to President Trump.

He wasn't the first — or only — Fox News personality to align with the president.

On the next Fresh Air - the world beneath our feet. Journalist Will Hunt talks with Dave Davies about his fascination with things below the surface of the earth.

Dee Ford was getting angry tweets when the Kansas City Chiefs' player drew a late penalty against the Patriots and his team lost. A woman named Dee Ford is on Twitter, she gets tweets meant for him.

New York City is testing a new model of workforce training for the future.

In October, the city partnered with the Freelancers Union to open the Freelancers Hub in Brooklyn. It's a kind of communal co-working space that offers classes, tax and legal advice — all at no cost — to the city's growing population of freelance workers.

DAVE DAVIES, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. Actress and comedian Mindy Kaling has said in interviews that she started her entertainment career as a diversity hire, writing for the NBC series "The Office.

Earlier this year, a report by NPR exposed a nightmare of debt for public school teachers across the country.

Woods' recent Masters title follows a 10-year drought of major tournament victories. Jeff Benedict, co-author of Tiger Woods, says: "What we're seeing now is someone who loves what he's doing."

Before the state's most destructive wildfire tore through Butte County, Calif., detailed plans for a tiny home village for the homeless in the northern California city of Chico were met with a mix of indifference, NIMBY-ism and outright rejection from a previous city council.

On the steps of New York City's City Hall last week, about 100 people gathered to enthusiastically chant their support for a landmark climate bill.

It didn't target cars or coal, but another major emitter — in fact, the source of nearly 70% of New York City's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Toy Storymovies are about the secret lives of dolls and action figures that find their deepest fulfillment in a child's embrace. But they're really about what it means to be human: the joys of love and friendship and the pains of rejection and loss.

On the next Fresh Air -- imagine climbing a sheer vertical rock, thousands of feet high, using little cracks and edges of the wall on which to hold on and balance your body weight.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

The legendary American author Toni Morrison has died. She is considered one of the country's greatest authors. She captured black American life in her heartbreaking works, winning the Nobel Prize in literature for her novel "Beloved.

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When Toni Morrison received her Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, her remarksbegan with a reflection on the phrase once upon a time.In her signature, measured cadence, Morrison told the Swedish Academy she believed these were some of the first words we remember from our childhoods.

Notes from a Transplant Surgeon. Dr. Joshua Mezrich talks about the thrill of implanting a new organ and changing a patient’s life, and about some operations that didn’t go so well.