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The Canadian television show, which centers on a Korean immigrant family in Toronto, is the country's first to have an all-Asian lead cast. Season 3 debuted Tuesday on the CBC.

Farmers in the European Union could hold the key to the bloc's parliamentary vote.

Brady Corbet's monumental drama, The Brutalist, chronicles the journey of a Jewish architect who comes to the U.S. in 1947 and creates a troubled and troubling masterpiece.

Barrie Hardymon is the Senior Editor at NPR's Weekend Edition, and the lead editor for books. You can hear her on the radio talking everything from Middlemarch to middle grade novels, and she's also a frequent panelist on NPR's podcasts It's Been A Minute and Pop Culture Happy Hour. She went to Juilliard to study viola, ended up a cashier at the Strand, and finally got a degree from Johns Hopkins' Writing Seminars which qualified her solely for work in public radio. She lives and reads in Washington, DC.

In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death penalty in the UK, and 70 years later her family is seeking a posthumous pardon.

The latest cases highlight the absence of a widespread testing program for Congress more than seven months after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic.

A top world Go champ lost the last of five games against Google's AlphaGo. But both sides are going home from the match with a lot more to learn.

Min Jin Lee's sprawling family epic spans decades and two clashing cultures — Korea and Japan. It's honest, unadorned writing that acknowledges horror but ultimately carries a message of hope.

Civil rights activist, New Yorker, and mother of three, Winifred Fredericks, died at the age of 92 in April of COVID-19.

Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan says Spike Lee's Inside Man is a terrific heist movie with a plot that unfolds on a need-to-know basis. Denzel Washington plays a New York City policeman, Clive Owen a brilliant criminal and Jodie Foster a Manhattan power broker.

Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall play a Southern Baptist pastor and his wife trying to redeem their legacy in the wake of a public scandal in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

North Korea is taking to YouTube and Twitter to spruce up its image overseas, showing off the burgeoning consumerism of Pyongyang's elites.

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter star in the drama On Swift Horses, while Ben Affleck reprises his role as a money-laundering expert in the action thriller The Accountant 2.

Donald Trump once accused Ted Cruz's father essentially of being linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On Monday, he flew to the Texas senator's hometown and gave him his full endorsement.

Hampton chronicles sex abuse allegations against R. Kelly in a new Lifetime docuseries. Kevin Whitehead reviews a reissue featuring Jeanne Lee And Ran Blake. Savage works with kids on MythBusters Jr.

A British boys-school hellion and his shy, sheltered patsy make a homegrown sequel to Rambo: First Blood. Garth Jennings' film is cheerfully ramshackle, childishly overstated, and pretty darn appealing.

Three Michelin-star chefs will cook for 60 guests in a one-night voyage of victuals in California. We talked to an artist creating the virtuoso flatware for the event.

National monument designations that bypass Congress are hugely controversial. In this presidential election year, the politics in a state like Nevada are even more sensitive.

There are burgers and sushi, and even the salacious eggplant, but where are the dumplings and salad? Creating a more culturally diverse menu of food emoji is harder than you think.

The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.