This week's Billboard Hot 100 chart is full of country-music crossovers. Stephen Thompson of NPR Music reports.

President Trump's proposed arch in Memorial Circle would intrude on dozens of nearby sites, says the National Park Service. But there's been minimal discussion of alternate locations.

Living in the desert is "not for everybody," says Watkins. Her home, in the Mojave Desert near Death Valley, is staggeringly beautiful and brutal. Her new novel Yellow Pine shares this landscape.

Vuong's first solo exhibition opens at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, on Thursday.

We're still in summer mode, so we made y'all mixtape. In fact, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich coined a term that encapsulates the season's sounds and feels: roséwave. Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station.

The Grateful Dead understood the importance of recording its legacy. A number of archivists and historians are dedicated to maintaining the band's immense collection of music and memorabilia.

To devotees of the Grateful Dead, the first nine days of August are known as the "Days Between." This annual celebration commemorates the birth and death of guitarist Jerry Garcia.

Spanish painter Salvador Dali needed America to become famous. So suggests a new exhibit about his life and influence.

The famous author's short story, 'There will come soft rains' predicted a world where machines would take over after August 4th, 2026.

Writer Nina LaCour talks about her new novel -- Meet Me in the Garden -- a post World War II Great Migration story that follows three sisters as they shift their lives from New Orleans to Los Angeles - and the difficult life choices they face.