culture

This author's 'Normal Family' includes a sperm donor dad and 35 siblings

12:54pm July 14, 2022

by Terry Gross

Chrysta Bilton's mother was a lesbian who asked a man she'd just met to be her sperm donor. It was only much later that Bilton learned the same man had donated sperm to countless other women.

Andrew Delbanco, professor of American Studies at Columbia University, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

Andrew Delbanco is named this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

12:01pm July 14, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The honorary lecture series is deemed the highest honor the federal government gives for intellectual achievement in the humanities.

Actor Kevin Spacey, center, arrives at the Old Bailey in London on Thursday. He pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting three men years ago.

Spacey pleads not guilty to charges in the U.K. that he sexually assaulted three men

9:52am July 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Actor Kevin Spacey's trial in the United Kingdom has been scheduled to begin in June 2023. He faces a separate civil sex-assault lawsuit in the United States from another man, actor Anthony Rapp.

Arts

Jane Goodall gets her own Barbie

7:09am July 14, 2022

The famed primatologist says having a Barbie made in her likeness is a dream come true.

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Poems you mail: share a poem

6:24am July 14, 2022

by Jacob Conrad

When was the last time you picked up a pen and composed a letter to a friend or a family member? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander wants you to share a poem in letter form.

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Write a poem to a friend for NPR

5:14am July 14, 2022

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

"You have the proportions of a model," the fitter tells cleaning lady Ada Harris (Lesley Manville). Her reply: "Model railway, more like."

Dreaming of Dior, a charwoman follows her bliss in 'Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris'

5:00am July 14, 2022

by Bob Mondello

A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London sets her heart on a designer dress in this charm-filled adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1958 novel.