Terry Gross
Stories
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Is the U.S. heading into a dictatorship?
The Atlantic writer Robert Kagan says as Trump violates norms, laws and the Constitution, including his call to nationalize elections, "we're on the edge of the consolidation of dictatorship."
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'Blue Moon' pushed Ethan Hawke to his limit: 'That's a thrilling spot to be in'
"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of his Oscar-nominated portrayal of lyricist Lorenz Hart. Originally broadcast Nov. 13, 2025.
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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's Frankenstein, which reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel, has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Originally broadcast Oct. 23, 2025.
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How did Tucker Carlson become one of the far right's most influential voices?
Writer Jason Zengerle says Carlson had the foresight to see Trump's potential in 2015. Now he's someone the president "definitely listens to." Zengerle's new book is Hated by All the Right People.
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Mel Brooks delights in mixing horrible taste with lavish production numbers
Brooks is the subject of a new two-part HBO documentary, Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! TV critic David Bianculli reviews the documentary, plus we listen back to archival interviews with Brooks.
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Are ICE agents in Minneapolis breaking the law?
As protestors clash with some 3,000 federal immigration agents in the Twin Cities, we look at the legal issues with law professor Emmanuel Mauleón and Brennan Center for Justice's Elizabeth Goitein.
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Poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths says she won't let pain be 'the engine that drives the ship'
On the day Griffiths married author Salman Rushdie, her longtime best friend died unexpectedly. Eleven months later, Rushdie was stabbed multiple times while being interviewed on stage.
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Remembering jazz singer Rebecca Kilgore
Kilgore, who died Jan. 7, was a talented interpreter of American popular song. We'll remember her by listening back to her in-studio concerts with pianist Dave Frishberg from 1995 and 1999.
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Julian Barnes says he's enjoying himself, but that 'Departure(s)' is his last book
Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years.
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'My role was making movies that mattered,' says Jodie Foster, as 'Taxi Driver' turns 50
Foster was just 12 years old when she starred in the 1976 film. "What luck to have been part of that, our golden age of cinema in the '70s," she says. Her latest film is Vie Privée (A Private Life).
