UNESCO Adds 8 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings To Its List Of World Heritage Sites
The Guggenheim Museum in New York and Fallingwater in Pennsylvania now belong to a list that includes Machu Picchu and the pyramids of Egypt.
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For July, 4 Romances That'll Keep You Laughing
Few things go together better than romance and comedy — so in honor of this year's Summer Reader Poll, all about funny books, we've got four romances that will bring a smile to your face.
Capturing The Undersung Blues People Of The Rural South
Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He's also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.
New Novel Asks: What Would You Do To Get Your Kid Into 'The Gifted School'?
The school is fictional but the anxiety is real — the plot bears striking resemblance to actual college admissions scandals. "There's a sense that parents will stop at nothing," says Bruce Holsinger.
Encore: Comedian Brian Regan Sees The Dinosaurs In Everyday Life
Brian Regan has been called "your favorite comedian's favorite comedian." He's also known as a "clean comic," which might explain why families make up a good portion of his audience.
These 'Wanderers' Are Heading For The End Of The World
Chuck Wendig's massive new novel imagines a plague of sleepwalkers — unresponsive people endlessly walking to an unknown destination as a fearful, hate-ridden country tears itself apart around them.
Greg Kinnear's 'Phil' Is Depressed, And Then Obsessed
The actor plays a dentist fixated on learning why a patient with a seemingly perfect life killed himself. For Kinnear, who is making his debut as a director, it was a "life-affirming" screenplay.
In Documentary 'Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love,' Free Love Comes At A Cost
This "moving, sympathetic but ultimately frustrating tribute" to Marianne Ihlen inadvertently reveals the male gaze's narrow focus by defining this complicated woman as Cohen's passive muse.
Centenarians Wed In Ohio
John and Phyllis Cook recently married. He is 100 and she is 102.
'Mad Magazine' Shutters After 67 Years
Mad Magazine is effectively ending its 67-year-long run. Maria Reidelbach, author of Completely MAD: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine joins NPR's Audie Cornish to discuss its legacy.