MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact
  The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.
• Jimmy Kimmel celebrates 20 years as a (reluctant) late night TV institution
  Kimmel says he thought he was going to stop; then he didn't.
• 'Dead Space' Review: A new voice for a recurring nightmare
  This year's tastefully refurbished Dead Space provides plenty of reasons to revisit the sci-fi horror classic.
• Classic LA noir meets the #MeToo era in the suspense novel 'Everybody Knows'
  Jordan Harper's hardboiled plot centers on a "black-bag publicist" who works for a prestige crisis management firm, putting out fires and quieting scandals for Hollywood's elite.
• Rescue crews start a new search for actor Julian Sands after recovering another hiker
  Sands, the 65-year-old star of A Room with a View, disappeared while hiking in Southern California. After 13 days, authorities are resuming a search "by air only" amid weather warnings.
• 'After Sappho' brings women in history to life to claim their stories
  Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is partly a love letter to Virginia Woolf and poet Sappho, partly a work of literary criticism and partly a speculative biography.
• This drinks festival doesn't have alcohol. That's why hundreds of people came
  One of the hottest tickets in Washington, D.C., was to a festival that was all about drinking and having fun — but not about booze.
• Pamela Anderson on her new memoir — and why being underestimated is a secret weapon
  Pamela Anderson, the Playboy Playmate and TV star who became one of the most famous sex symbols of all time, has written a book about herself. And it was her sons who gave her the idea.
• What tracking one Walmart store's prices for years taught us about the economy
  Inside our shopping cart is a story of global trade, extreme weather, shrinking packages and rising prices.
• UV nail dryers may pose cancer risks, a study says. Here are precautions you can take
  A new study finds that UV dryers for gel nail polish can damage DNA and mutate cells, confirming dermatologists' safety concerns. There are precautions you can take and alternatives to consider.