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Fresh Air for May 31, 2024: Novelist Andre Dubus III

Viggo Mortensen plays Holger Olsen in The Dead Don't Hurt.

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'The Dead Don’t Hurt' is a tender love story and a subversive Western

'The Dead Don’t Hurt' is a tender love story and a subversive Western

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Fresh Air for May 30, 2024: 'You Didn't See Nothin'' podcast creator Yohance Lacour

Enea Sala (center) plays the young Edgardo in Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara.

Enea Sala (center) plays the young Edgardo in Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara.
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'Kidnapped' tells the historical horror story of an abducted Jewish child

'Kidnapped' tells the historical horror story of an abducted Jewish child

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Fresh Air for May 29, 2024: Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma performs in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 2018.

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Yo-Yo Ma on ‘touching infinity’ through his nearly 300-year-old cello, Petunia

Yo-Yo Ma on ‘touching infinity’ through his nearly 300-year-old cello, Petunia

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Fresh Air for May 28, 2024: The history of C-sections

Approximately one in every three births in the U.S. occurs as the result of a C-section.

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After a traumatic C-section, journalist takes on the medicalization of birth

After a traumatic C-section, journalist takes on the medicalization of birth

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Fresh Air

The Peabody Award-winning weekday arts and issues magazine.