Comedian Mo Amer appears on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New YorkMike Katzif/NPRhide caption

Vanessa Hudgens as both Stacy and Margaret in the Netflix holiday confection The Princess Switch.Netflixhide caption

Novelist and screenwriter William Goldman has died at the age of 87.Peter Jones/Corbis via Getty Imageshide caption

Mama Stamberg's cranberry relish recipe.Ariel Zambelich & Emily Bogle/NPRhide caption

Summer (Zoe Renee) comes to terms with her mother's new faith in Jinn, one of only a handful of films to deal with the experience of being young, female and black in America.Orion Classicshide caption

Sam Esmail, the creator of Mr. Robot, directs every episode of the new Amazon thriller Homecoming. Amazon hide caption

Elton John and his mohawk perform at Universal Amphitheater in Universal City, Calif., in 1986.Mark Terrill/APhide caption

Back on my beast: Eddie Redmayne returns to his old, squirrelly tricks as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros. Pictureshide caption

Lara (Victor Polster) is impatient to become the girl she knows herself to be, in Lukas Dhont's Girl.Netflixhide caption

The Ear of Living Dangerously: Willem Dafoe is Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate.Lily Gavin/CBS Filmshide caption

The Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in 2016. It was the last time a U.S. president — Barack Obama — attended the awards ceremony.Pool/Getty Imageshide caption

Author Jonathan Franzen speaks at BookExpo America at the Javits Center on May 27, 2015, in New York City.Brent N. Clarke/Getty Imageshide caption

Patricia Arquette plays Tilly, a woman who helped two inmates break out of prison, in the based-on-a-true-story drama Escape at Dannemora. Benicio del Toro plays escapee Richard Matt.Chris Saunders/Showtimehide caption

Viola Davis stars as Veronica, a woman who loses her husband and gains a heist gang in Widows.Merrick Morton/Twentieth Century Foxhide caption

Born to be Posthumous, by Mark DevyNPRhide caption

Insomnia, by Marina BenjaminNPRhide caption

Gert Berliner's Swedish ID card with which he eventually entered the U.S. in 1947. He lived in Berlin until he was 14 years old. Gert escaped the Nazi death camps because his parents got him on a children's transport to Sweden in 1939.Jacobia Dahm for NPRhide caption

Comedian Neal Brennan.Courtesy of Neal Brennanhide caption