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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with writer Meg Mason about her latest book, Sophie, Standing There, and the one-sided relationships we form with some of our favorite authors.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Charles Spencer about his new book Swan Song.
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Few people these days are fishing for subsistence. Fishermen and women are hooked by something other than hunger.
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Los Angeles-based composer Charles-Henri Avelange wrote a score to honor firefighters almost 20 years ago. After last year's wildfires in Los Angeles, he’s made headway in finally recording it.
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President Trump has brought his New York real estate background to the White House. But experts say D.C. is a very different historic and legal landscape — and worry about the precedent he could set.
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Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify supremacists that have, despite ideological differences, converged around the conviction that they are part of an elite destined to survive an apocalypse.
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The Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT album features contributions from over 30 artists, including Kathleen Hanna, Fred Armisen and Tom Morello to create a historical and artistic record of this moment.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear about his new book "Go and Do Likewise."
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In Laleh Khadivi's new novel "Female Life on Planet Earth", a woman finds photographs that reveal unknown layers of her late mother's past.
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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, co-hosts of the podcast "Who? Weekly," who have written a new book about celebrity called "I Want to Be Famous."
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A 300-year-old Mexican musical tradition is finding new life around the world — one sweaty, joyous, all-night fandango at a time.
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Many thousands of boys and men in Lesotho take up the vital profession of herding but have to give up their education. A small network of schools on a shoestring budget is teaching them the ABCs.