Fresh Air Weekend

Lebowitz's Pretend It's A City is the NYC trip you can't take right now. Kevin Whitehead reviews Joshua Abrams' Cloud Script. Historian Kerri Greenidge tells Trotter's story in Black Activist.

CNN's chief medical correspondent says it's never too late to develop new brain pathways. Maureen Corrigan reviews Outlawed, by Anna North. Ressa discusses Rodrigo Duterte's authoritarian presidency.

NPR's legal correspondent has spent decades covering major shifts in the Supreme Court. Watchmen writer Jefferson uses sci-fi and superheroes to examine American racism.

David Bianculli shares his list of TV shows that brought us together. Ken Tucker recommends his top albums. Justin Chang pairs his movie picks. Kevin Whitehead remembers jazz stars who died in 2020.

Ahmed plays a drummer who loses his hearing in Sound of Metal. Maureen Corrigan shares her book picks for the year. Gruen has photographed countless rock stars, including John Lennon and Tina Turner.

Winslet says she wanted to portrays a same-sex love story "wtihtout fear or secrecy" in Ammonite. Loudon Wainwright III and Vince Giordano play from the "Great American Songbook."

Grant, co-star of The Undoing, embraces the "blessed relief" of darker roles. Justin Chang reviews Ammonite. Waste author Catherine Coleman Flowers discusses the gaps in sanitation in rural America.

Chang talks about cooking, fatherhood and his new memoir, Each a Peach. Kevin Whitehead reviews the documentary Collective. Anderson plays Margaret Thatcher on The Crown.

Obama says democracy has been "strained" — but not broken — by President Trump. Justin Chang reviews Small Axe. Author Jon Wiener says the Chicago 7 trial reflected "all the conflicts in America."

Rapinoe reflects on on equal pay and patriotism. Maureen Corrigan reviews We Keep the Dead Close, by Becky Cooper. Nose Dive author McGee talks about how our sense of smell affects taste.