Justin Torres explores the queer history we're not talking about in novel 'Blackouts'
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Justin Torres on how Torres uncovered hidden queer history for his new novel 'Blackouts.'
Arts
The story of an Indigenous woman in Colombia who fought back against Coca-Cola
The coca leaf has been a part of Andean culture for thousands of years. But when an indigenous woman used it in a drink she calls Coca Pola, her company entered into the crosshairs of Coca-Cola.
A Minnesota man has grown the world's largest pumpkin... again
On Monday, a man beat his own record for the largest pumpkin ever grown in North America. This one was 2, 749 pounds — almost 200 pounds heavier than last year's fruit!
In Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Roman Stories,' many characters are caught between two worlds
In her return to short stories, the Interpreter of Maladies author returns to fiction that powerfully conveys her characters' efforts to navigate geography and culture to find a place in the world.
A perfect artistic union: Wes Anderson adapts Roald Dahl's singularly strange visions
Netflix's anthology series presents four of Dahl's short stories — all of them written for the screen and directed by Anderson, and all of them featuring Dahl's dazzling, fairy-tale-book visuals.
Keegan-Michael Key breaks down how he sets up a joke
The Key & Peele and Schmigadoon! star explains why he loves sketch comedy — watching it, performing it and writing about it. His book, with writing partner Elle Key, is The History of Sketch Comedy.
Radio Diaries: Neil Harris, one among many buried at Hart Island
Hart Island is where bodies in New York go when they are unclaimed or unidentifiable. One man buried there had lived two lives, in different places and under different names.
NSYNC is back on the Billboard Hot 100 with their first new song in two decades
The last time NSYNC had a song on the Billboard Hot 100, George W. Bush was president and the iPhone was still years away. "Better Place," its first song in over two decades, just debuted at No. 25.
An 'anti-World's Fair' makes its case: give land back to Native Americans
A new art installation asks people and institutions to go beyond land acknowledgements — and give property back to Indigenous tribes. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 9, 2023.)
A person helped a woman who fell on the ice, and changed her life in the process
In January 2015, Lauren Passell slipped and fell on an icy New York City street, completely breaking her hip. She says one of the people who came up to help her changed her life.