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Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean completed the fastest unsupported row across the Pacific, arriving in Cairns, Australia, on Saturday. They rowed over 9,000 miles non-stop from Peru.

Country singer Brandy Clark wrote her new song, "Remember Me Beautiful," for the Morning Edition Song Project after a writing session with friends who had lost relatives during the pandemic.

David Greene talks to the pianist about her recent performance at a piano festival in Cuba — and a particularly stressful time in her life.

Melissa Block talks with Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) about his meetings with Republican and Democratic Senators to try and broker a compromise on judicial nominations and the use of the filibuster. Among the Senators he's been meeting with today: John McCain (R-Ariz.), John Warner (R-Va.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).

Joe Biden has promised to reverse the Trump administration's most restrictive immigration policies. But he did not include immigration as one of his four core priorities.

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed funeral directors in a unique position. Rachel Martin speaks with Pat Marmo, a funeral director based in New York City.

Author and screenwriter Richard Russo has selected our third book — a new novel by Lauren Groff. Fates and Furies chronicles a marriage over 24 years. Russo calls it "an incredibly ambitious work."

Homes and apartments were damaged or destroyed by a flood in Juneau, Alaska, caused by the melting Mendenhall glacier. Climate change is making these kinds of floods a growing issue around the world.

In the new film Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage plays a man who unwittingly starts showing up in other people's dreams. NPR speaks with writer and director Kristoffer Borgli.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks again with Cassie Piggott, who lives in Tennessee, and Rosie Reid, who lives in California, about helping their children navigate virtual learning during the pandemic.

A USAID official confirmed the payment to Alan Gross, who spent five years in a Cuban prison. It's part of a settlement with the Maryland-based company for which he worked at the time of his arrest.

Miami is just days away from hosting the first Democratic national presidential debate. Last week, President Donald Trump officially launched his...

Harry James helps men feel more comfortable embracing their baldness — he calls it "baldmaxxing."

In an era when some classical musicians are struggling, New York-based flutist Claire Chase, the founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble, is keeping very busy.

William Hague is the shadow foreign secretary of Britain's Conservative Party, and was once head of the party. Since leaving full-time work in politics, he's been writing political biographies. The latest is called William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner. Scott Simon speaks to the author about how Wilberforce's personality and religious faith informed his anti-slavery activism.

The new live album from Andy Bey shows off his extraordinary range as a singer. There's plenty of Ellington, risk-taking, and evidence of his virtuosity—even if he didn't become famous until his ongoing revival in the '90s.

The Grammy Award-winning singer and musician had rigorous classical training. Now she's making music that crosses genres: "I've been inspired by Golden Age films, the va-va-voom of it all," she says.

Treadmill desks were the hot new trend in exercising a few years ago. The idea was to get moving and lose weight at work. But a new study suggests people don't use them enough to make a difference.

Nirvana's In Utero celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. On this episode of All Songs Considered, the band's two surviving members recall their time recording what would be the band's last album.

A new book, Lost Sounds, profiles a man named George W. Johnson, a former slave and New York City street performer who became the very first African-American recording artist — singing some very racist tunes.

John Sayles' 1977 novel, Union Dues, is reissued this month. It tells the story of a father and son from a West Virginia mining town in 1969. Sayles talks about his work in both celluloid and print.

Poet W.H. Auden was born in England 100 years ago today. Edward Mendelson, Auden's literary executor, marks the occasion with a new collection, Selected Poems.

Cartoonists Brian Fies and Miriam Engelberg use comics to write about cancer. Both say they've found one cartoon drawing can distill meaning, humor and sadness more effectively than a 50-page essay.

In his book, Cocaine Nation, Tom Feiling traces the growth of the cocaine industry worldwide, from Latin American coca fields to America's inner cities. Feiling argues that the so-called war on drugs has been an abject failure — and that it's time to take decriminalization seriously.

In 1957, the "Little Rock Nine" enrolled in racially segregated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest member of the group. In her book, A Mighty Long Way, she remembers her journey.