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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

The C-Word

If you cannot stand Lena Dunham, this podcast is not for you. But you don’t have to love her to like The C-Word, a series that profiles a collection of complicated women from Judy Garland to Yoko Ono, Whitney Houston to Anna Nicole Smith, Brittany Murphy to Wendi Deng. The “c-word,” as Dunham and co-host Alissa Bennett explain at the beginning of each episode, refers to an insult leveled, at one point or another, to every woman profiled in this podcast: “crazy.” A recent gem is the two-parter on Amy Winehouse, who died 10 years ago this summer. —J.V.