The sultry voice of Baby Rose returns on a new album called "Yearnalism," which she considers the study of desire.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to writer Lauren Collins about her book "They Stole a City," which details the history and effects of the 1898 white supremacist massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The novel centers around gamer Julia, who's tasked with guiding a man in a vegetative state with artificial intelligence implanted in his brain across the country.

After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band.

Social media can make a song go viral — even push it up the pop charts — seemingly overnight. Perhaps it's not surprising that some influencers are being paid to promote music without disclosing it.

Many people dream of extended summer reading time, but to really dig into books, you need steal any moment possible.

Long lost tapes of an Oscar Peterson piano performance in Detroit take us back in time to the night the jazz session was recorded.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Rebecca Wright Stevens about her new nonfiction book, "Sisters of the Midnight Sun." It's the story of a gruesome double murder in arctic Alaska.

The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.

People are reading fewer and fewer books. The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch discusses what a post-literate world might look like.