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Eve Ewing is an assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.

Fresh Air Weekend: Poet Eve Ewing; Parenting Blogger Kristen Howerton

Ewing connects 1919 Chicago to today's racial unrest. Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on jazz biopic films. Howerton talks about faith, adoption and white privilege.

The resurgence of family meals is one of the "precious few good things" that's come from the COVID-19 pandemic, says food writer Sam Sifton.

Fresh Air Weekend: Food Writer Sam Sifton; Actor Jason Bateman

Food writer Sam Sifton talks about family meals in the time of COVID-19. Justin Chang recommends three films to watch while sheltering in place. Jason Bateman explores his darker side in Ozark.

"If we can erase some of the stigma around [depression and suicide]," says podcast host John Moe, "that person can have at least a better shot at treatment and avoiding this kind of fate."

Fresh Air Weekend: Easing Depression's Darkness; 1 Family's Marijuana Business

John Moe talks about The Hilarious World of Depression. Ken Tucker reviews the new X album, Alphabetland. Growing up in '70s, Alia Volz's family ran a booming weed-laced brownie business.

"In many ways I appear very good at being social," says comic Hannah Gadsby. "But it's an incredibly exhausting process for me." She found her autism spectrum diagnosis in 2016 helped put her experience into perspective.

Fresh Air Weekend: Comic Hannah Gadsby; Behind The Edward Snowden Story

Gadsby says being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder helped her "be kinder" to herself. Maureen Corrigan reviews St. Christopher on Pluto. Barton Gellman discusses reporting of the Snowden story.

Allison Moorer's music has been nominated for an Oscar, a Grammy and an Academy of Country Music Award.

Fresh Air Weekend: Singer/Songwriter Allison Moorer; Writer Saeed Jones

Moorer talks about losing her parents to murder-suicide when she was 14. Kevin Whitehead reviews Hittin' the Ramp, featuring early Nat King Cole. Jones reflects on growing up black and gay in Texas.

Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn play a couple who are desperate to have a child in the Netflix film <em>Private Life.</em>

Fresh Air Weekend: Infertility And 'Private Life'; Evan Osnos On Mark Zuckerberg

Writer and director Tamara Jenkins says her experiences with IVF inspired her new film. David Edelstein reviews A Star is Born. Osnos discusses his recent New Yorker article about the Facebook CEO.

No, these are not Tim Gunn's comfy clothes — he's shown here hosting a charity cocktail reception at his Manhattan apartment in April 2018. But lately the fashion expert has been self-isolating and prioritizing comfort over style.

Fresh Air Weekend: Fashion Expert Tim Gunn; Chef Tom Colicchio

Gunn admits to wearing comfy clothes during self-isolation. David Bianculli reviews a recent TV tribute to Stephen Sondheim. Colicchio explains what restaurants need to survive the pandemic.

On <em>Masters of Sex,</em> Allison Janney plays Margaret Scully. Janney was nominated for an Emmy as outstanding guest actress in a drama series for her performance.

Fresh Air Weekend: Allison Janney, Jason Hamacher, Pinterest And Interactive TV

Allison Janney talks sex, Sorkin and being the tallest women in the room; Jason Hamacher preserved Syrian chants; Pinterest offers "guided search"; and interactive TV has a long history.

A collection of current and past presidential advertising materials hangs on a wall in the visitor center of the New Hampshire State House in Concord, N.H.

Fresh Air Weekend: The Genesis Of Data-Driven Politics; Novelist Ayad Akhtar

In If Then, historian Jill Lepore tells the story of the Simulmatics Corporation. David Bianculli reviews the TV series Ratched. Akhtar chronicles the immigrant experience in Homeland Elegies.

Dawnie Walton left her job as the deputy managing editor of <em>Essence</em> to write <em>The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. </em>

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Opal & Nev' Author Dawnie Walton; The History Of Juneteenth

Walton's book is a faux oral history about an interracial rock duo. Maureen Corrigan reviews Chris Power's A Lonely Man and Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot. Annette Gordon-Reed discusses On Juneteenth.

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