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NPR's Life Kit host Marielle Segarra is really into the 1998 movie "Practical Magic," which stars Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witch sisters in a small town.

NPR's Juana Summers talks to University of Vermont professor Bader Chaarani about why playing video games might actually have some positive effects on a child's cognition.

Hear music and field recordings from bassist, composer, and fashion icon Jamaaladeen Tacuma's residency in North Carolina, where he explores his familial and musical roots.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with director Rebekah McKendry, who has a PhD in horror, about the best horror movies of the year.

Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck wrote about his homeland in Le Figaro.

#MeToo helped launch a wider examination of society's treatment of women in everyday life, at the workplace, and in Hollywood. But there remain institutional problems resistant to change.

The Netflix adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front," the classic novel about the horrors of World War I, was directed by a German man and is in the German language.

A famous artwork by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian has been displayed upside down for 75 years.

Consumers often make decisions about TV streaming platforms based on three factors.

The special effects are a lot more special than the stories in the Oscar-winning director's new Netflix anthology series. Still, most of the shows in this first, eight-episode run are worth watching.