After A Friend's Suicide, A Writer Inherits His Grieving Dog

Sigrid Nunez's 2018novel The Friend won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a dog after her friend's suicide. She spoke with Terry Gross about the book in 2019.

Also,Justin Chang reviews the new French film thriller Misericordia.

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