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Michael Ondaatje's latest novel, Warlight, is set in England at the end of World War II, about two teenagers whose parents leave them in the care of a relative stranger.

William Brawner has been HIV-positive for most of his life. He kept his status a secret for years, even from friends and sexual partners. His life is the subject of a new documentary, "25 to Life."

Waterston joined the cast of the original NBC series in 1994 on a one-year contract. He wound up staying 16 years, until the series wrapped in 2010. Now the show's back — and so is he.

Jacki Lyden remembers Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Norman Mailer, who died Saturday at the age of 84. We hear excerpts from NPR interviews with Mailer. And we speak with Jimmy Breslin, the long-time newspaper columnist who was Mailer's running-mate when the author ran unsuccessfully for New York mayor in 1969.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Garrett Bradley about her new film, which follows a woman campaigning for the release of her husband who's serving a 60-year prison sentence.

Roger Hawkins, drummer and cofounder of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, has died. He played on albums for everyone from Aretha Franklin to Wilson Pickett.

The Toronto International Film Fest is usually mobbed with over a thousand industry types from all over the world. But this year the partially-online festival has been bleak and deserted.

The ReliaQuest Bowl — formerly known as the Outback Bowl — features Mississippi State vs. Illinois, while the Gasparilla Bowl matches Missouri and Wake Forest.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with writer Richard Stengel about Mandela: The Lost Tapes, which features never-before heard audio of his conversations with Nelson Mandela from 1993.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rudy Mancuso about his new movie, Musica. It's his semi-autobiographical film about living with synesthesia and falling in love.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with writer/director Emma Seligman about her new movie Bottoms.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with comedian Dave Chappelle about his investments in public media, the art of standup comedy and the town of Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Scott Saul's new book, Becoming Richard Pryor, describes how Pryor went from being raised by a grandmother, who was a bootlegger and madam, to being a transformative figure in entertainment.

The nation's third-highest ranking diplomat retired this month. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Victoria Nuland about her career in diplomacy.

Most U.S. troops are out of Afghanistan. The survivors of a deadly helicopter crash there 15 years ago reflect on the close of the 20-year war, and why for them, time does not heal all wounds.

In 2007, legendary Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, a star of bluegrass and Americana music, released their first album: Raising Sand. Their new album is called Raise the Roof.

NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman is turning in his press pass, but won't stop reporting. Major news organizations are rejecting a restrictive new policy around covering the Department of Defense.

A study shows that abortion restrictions take a toll — not only on women who can't access the procedure — but also on obstetricians who feel they can't provide the care patients need.

Tampa Bay’s regional transit authority is going away. Members of the authority voted last Friday to dissolve it.

New York Times reporter Adam Liptak discusses the Court's decisions to limit the power of lower courts while expanding presidential power, and its consequential use of the "shadow docket."

This is the first Hanukkah that Murray Horwitz will not be joined by the late Susan Stamberg on NPR's holiday special Hanukkah Lights. We talk with him about their 35 years of making the show.

In November 2023, Byrne spoke about the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense and described the band's hit song "Burning Down the House" as a compilation of "non-sequiturs" with an emotional impact.

Israelis in the town of Sderot, just a couple miles from the Gaza Strip, recount the carnage that Hamas militants unleashed there over the weekend.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., about the vote to oust Speaker of the Hose Kevin McCarthy and what comes next.

Kay Redfield Jamison's new book describes how Lowell's manic-depressive illness influenced his life and work. "His manias tended to lead him into writing a fresh kind of poetry," she says.