We’ve invited Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, to play a game called “It’s great, just great! But we have a few notes.” Three questions about “suits” — network executives who oversee movies and TV.

Musician Juan Wauters talks about how he created a hip-hop song for his new album, Real Life Situations.

The daredevil aviator in Maggie Shipstead’s new novel was inspired by Amelia Earhart. Shipstead says she wants to investigate the difference between death and a disappearances like Earhart’s

“Phosphôros,” made in El Salvador, is on the shortlist for a World Health Organization short film competition. Winners will be named May 13. Until then, the public can tune in — and weigh in.

Martha Wells’ new Murderbot novella is a classic locked-room mystery — only the locked room is a docked shuttle at a normally peaceful space station ill-equipped to deal with murder and mayhem.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Radio Diaries creator Joe Richman about some of the people he’s introduced us to over the past 25 years and how documenting one’s life has changed over time.

Chinese director Zhang Yimou tells an epic tale of subterfuge and spies in Cliff Walkers. And in the Scottish dramedy Limbo, a young musician is stranded in a starkly beautiful no-man’s-land.