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Jodie Foster has spoken French since she was a child. But it's only now that she's taken on a lead role scripted almost entirely in the language of Molière, for A Private Life.

There are no dragons, no maps and no internecine family trees in this Game of Thrones prequel about an underdog knight and his would-be squire.

A growing number of young people are getting involved in what are traditionally considered "grandma hobbies," like knitting, to relax.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tudor historian Owen Emmerson about his theory that the face in a famous portrait of Anne Boleyn is actually that of her daughter, Elizabeth I.

Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years.

Regina Hall joins us to chat about starring in one of the year's biggest movies – One Battle After Another. She also tells us about her background in journalism and when she realized that her true calling was to be an artist.

In her feature-length directorial debut, actor Kristen Stewart adapts The Chronology of Water, the memoir of Lidia Yuknavitch, a competitive swimmer-turned-author who was abused as a child.

There have been many TV crossovers over the years, but it's a tricky balance to get right — for every mashup that feels organic, there are plenty more that amount to little other than weird stunts. So we decided to dream up the ultimate TV crossovers.

The American toy company Mattel has released its first-ever Barbie with autism spectrum disorder.

It's not just the quintessential corporate jargon word. "Synergy" goes back hundreds of years, with history in Christianity, medicine and psychology.