MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• From 'Little House' to Libertarianism: Rose Wilder Lane's Troublemaking Life
  Cartoonist Peter Bagge takes on the life of another independent woman in Credo, his biography of pioneering libertarian Rose Wilder Lane (also known for being the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder).
• Missed Connections: 1969 Humanitarian Trip To Africa
  In our latest "Missed Connections," Helen Chapple, Saul Blair and Graham Hinton reunite to talk about how a humanitarian trip to Africa 50 years ago changed the trajectory of their lives.
• 'Gentleman Jack' Swaggers Off The Page And Onto The Screen
  A new HBO show takes on the life of Anne Lister, a real-life British landowner of the 1830s whose voluminous coded diaries detailed her extensive — and sometimes open — love affairs with women.
• 'Flowers Over The Inferno' Has A Tantalizing Weirdness
  Ilaria Tuti's crime thriller, set in the mountains of northern Italy, stars a classic odd couple of cops: A gruff, aging, unhealthy veteran detective and her young whippersnapper of a partner.
• 'Republic Of Lies' Explores The Fixation With Conspiracy Theories
  Author Anna Merlan's recitations are chilling, as are her warnings that fringe beliefs tend to go mainstream — and how their rise is seen against a resurgence in nationalism and white supremacy.
• Iconic Helvetica Font Gets First Redesign In Decades
  Charles Nix, Mitch Goldstein, and Sarah Hyndman talk to NPR's Scott Simon about a recent face-lift to the typeface Helvetica, which recently got its first redesign in 35 years.
• 100 Dances For 100 Years Of Merce Cunningham
  To celebrate the centennial of the modern-dance pioneer's birth, dancers at theaters in London, New York and Los Angeles performed a total of 100 solos that the master choreographed.
• Emotionally Complex 'Arid Dreams' Operates On Multiple Levels
  Duanwad Pimwana is one of Thailand's preeminent female writers, and this newly translated story collection — while not uniformly flawless — lets readers watch her grow into a true master of the form.
• 'Fast Color' Celebrates A Supermom Who Literally Moves Heaven And Earth
  Moms perform heroic tasks every day, but they rarely get portrayed as superheroes. Fast Color tells the story of three generations of black women and the supernatural powers they inherit.
• 'Einstein's Unfinished Revolution' Looks At The Quantum-Physics-And-Reality Problem
  A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, no one is sure what it is telling us about the nature of reality — and Lee Smolin's book adds to a stream of excellent works on the topic.