Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by their sweep and intensity. Karen Russell's The Antidote was her favorite.

Gehry is famous for monumental works like the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago.

The Department of Homeland Security, tasked with overseeing the Trump administration’s aggressive and legally disputed immigration crackdown, has published a series of social media posts featuring Norman Rockwell paintings.

Tens of thousands of people came to watch in a small Kentucky town.

It's always summer somewhere. Annie DiRusso and her band offer a five-song pageant full of clever costuming, synchronized dance moves and even a few behind-the-back guitar riffs.

For decades, Gary J. Walters worked in the White House, including 20 years as chief usher. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with him about his new memoir, "White House Memories."

President Trump said he was closely involved with picking the honorees, and on Sunday he became the first president to host the Kennedy Center awards ceremony.

The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond.

Rebecca Armitage, author of the novel 'The Heir Apparent', imagines a woman forced to choose between love and the British crown.

Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.