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The 2022 novel was a best seller — and now it's a streaming video experiment.

There has been notable progress in Asian American representation in film over the past few years. One author explores how the journey to this point wasn't always easy.

There's a presumption in the business world that everyone's straight, says John Browne, who hid his homosexuality for years. In his new book, he says it's time for a change in corporate culture.

Religion professor Timothy Beal piles his family into a motor home and hits the highway on a tour of religious attractions in the American South. Beal documents his journey in the book, Roadside Religion.

Lewis speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the catharsis of making her latest album, On the Line, and grappling with accusations made against her album collaborator, Ryan Adams.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has witnessed seminal events in U.S. history, from growing up in segregated Alabama to helping plan the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Her new memoir describes how her parents helped her reach the White House.

More than any other food, oysters taste like the place they come from. Rowan Jacobsen, author of A Geography of Oysters, explains, describes and slurps his way through a sampling of succulent raw oysters.

Thanksgiving might be the most Oaxacan holiday in the U.S.; Guelaguetza, the name of the Lopez family's award-winning Los Angeles restaurant, is a Zapotec word meaning "to give and receive."

The columnist could write like an angel — and bite like an asp. In a new biography, John Norris recounts McGrory's first big break and the proposition she received from a Democratic president.

PolitiFact Florida and WLRN have partnered to fact-check the second Republican presidential debate on Wednesday evening, as seven contenders including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis battle for the nomination.

The following is Gov. Rick Scott's prepared State of the State remarks, delivered today.The script is remarks, as prepared for delivery, unedited for the…

The librarian extraordinaire sorts through the piles of books in her office and comes up with 10 captivating tales. With strong narrative voices and wonderfully drawn characters, these books will make you stop and savor the story.

Jon Pineda's new novel follows a young girl living with her father in an old boathouse, somewhere in the Southern United States. It's a well-written book that manages to be both honest and poetic.

A report from the National Association of Realtors shows the average home buyer this past year had a six-figure income. Others face challenges in a period of high prices and costly home loans.

Some 44 million people — almost half the population — were expected to vote, but many, including several million displaced by conflict in the vast country's east, could struggle to cast their ballots.

"As a news reporter ... I am confident to report that you are so special and amazing," Grover tweeted. Some responded with jokes about him getting laid off, a common occurrence in today's media world.

Brazil has more law schools the rest of the world combined and more lawyers per capita than the U.S. But there's a huge legal backlog: One department of five judges is now handling 1.6 million cases.

Michele Norris talks with Debbie Fisher and Maya Lee. In January 2005, Fisher participated in the StoryCorps oral-history project. She remembered her late father, a Holocaust survivor, and described the tattoo on her arm: a remembrance of another survivor of Auschwitz whose story moved her when she visited the Holocaust museum in Washington. That woman's daughter, Maya Lee, saw the story on the NPR Web site, and contacted her: they've been in close touch since June and Lee will be in New York to meet Fisher for the first time.

London police say the driver of a van is in custody after being detained by members of the public. One man was pronounced dead at the scene; eight others have been hospitalized.

Now that American troops have left Afghanistan, Afghans in the U.S. face long odds as they try to help their family members escape the Taliban.

Florida has seen significant campaign spending, particularly on hot button ballot initiatives, like Amendment 3 and Amendment 4.

Stars of Star Trek and its many spinoffs gathered outside Paramount Pictures during the labor dispute.

Tressie McMillan Cottom delves into the hopes and dreams of students outside the traditional college path.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sanaa Seif, sister of imprisoned Egyptian political activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, about her brother who has not been heard from in over a week.

At StoryCorps, the Rev. Farrell Duncombe remembered those who nurtured him — like Rosa Parks, his former Sunday school teacher, who joked once that as a kid, "I ain't think you was gonna be nothing."