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Maia Kobabe set out to express an experience with gender identity. The graphic memoir Gender Queer is now the most banned book in the United States, according to the American Library Association.

Three weeks before the London Summer Olympics, we are going to see the seedier side of the city. Mystery writer Mark Billingham shows off some of the places that inspired his dark, twisted thrillers. (This piece initially aired August 10, 2009 on Morning Edition).

As a student, the young baritone was never really introduced to any Black composers. Liverman's latest album, Dreams of a New Day, features an abundance of them.

Election officials are raising concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle this fall’s expected influx of election mail. But USPS say it’s ready to deliver the country’s ballots.

Israel and Hamas are waging one of their deadliest clashes as the U.S. moves naval forces into the Mediterranean Sea. Questions persist about why Israel was caught so unprepared in the assault.

Lead seepage into the drinking water in Flint, Mich., has causing a major public health crisis and prompted President Obama to declare a federal state of emergency. This is how it unfolded.

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.

It's hard to do nothing — and it's harder to be funny doing nothing. Comic and Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me panelist Maeve Higgins weighs in.

While impeachment hearings continue in Washington, D.C., Americans around the country are learning about the allegations Democrats are making about President Trump's conduct and forming conclusions.

Monday will be 22 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives.

Family members of Andrew Brown Jr. were allowed to view a snippet of body camera footage showing his killing by police in Elizabeth City, N.C. The video clip was only 20 seconds.

Sorry, DC universe fans: the movie, which starred 'In The Heights' actress Leslie Grace in the title role, will not be released theatrically or on HBO Max.

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.

Over the next five years, more than one million men and women will leave the military and re-enter civilian life. For some, that is not an easy…

Kevin Goodan used to be a U.S. Forest Service firefighter. Now he's a poet. He talks to NPR's Noel King about his new collection of poetry: Spot Weather Forecast.

The Republic of Ireland was created nearly a century ago, and for most of that time two center-right parties dominated politics. But a recent election ended that cozy duopoly.

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.

Lebanon is a cultural hub for Arab music. Lebanese music writer Danny Hajjar has been talking with musicians there about how they're dealing with escalating conflict in the region.

The man who led the efforts to allow the use of medical marijuana in Florida two years ago implored Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday to drop the state's...

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.

A Japanese restaurateur elevates the plain and homely rice ball, or onigiri, into gourmet fare at a Tokyo restaurant where people line up for hours to get one of nine seats.

A rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, including a mass shooting in Atlanta has inspired action across the country, including Central Florida. A protest rally is being held Sunday, March 28, at 11 a.m. outside the Walgreens in the Colonial Plaza Mall in downtown Orlando.