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NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Christine Turner, the filmmaker behind the short documentary, Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day,' about her film and its present-day resonance.

We never really learn what Willy sells — mostly, he tries to sell himself. He loves his sons, who find him foolish; he loves his wife, though he can be cruel. And his tragedy is the tragedy of every man who strives, who doubts, who fails.

The omicron surge has clogged up the health care system, from the ICU to the ER. The consequences are huge for smaller hospitals and, in some cases, it has led to irreparable harm.

London cabbie, Will Grozier, offers some book recommendations. Included are: The Wild Places, by Robert Macfarlane; Sepulchre, by Kate Mosse (due out in April); and Drop City by T.C. Boyle.

The Sundance Film Festival is under way in Park City, Utah. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan combs the movie lineup for the most promising offerings.

The announcement last month that Philippe De Montebello is retiring has led to a spate of articles describing him as the last of a breed. De Montebello has led New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for 30 years.

While Afghanistan has never been safe for LGBTQ people, activist Basira Paigham says she did enjoy some level of community before the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August.

Fewer than 1,000 people in McLean County are isolating at home with COVID-19. The county has its lowest total of active coronavirus cases since early December before the omicron variant peaked.

Dramatist Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman) has been called a "stage Tarantino"; with In Bruges, his feature-film debut, he's left two Irish hit men at large in the picturesque Belgian city — and created some moments that are pretty picturesque themselves.

In 1960, a team of documentary filmmakers descended on the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary in order to record the campaigning between John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey. Politically, the results propelled Kennedy to the nomination. Artistically, the documentarians invented a new form.