Author Helen Hoang used her own experience on the autism spectrum to build the character of Stella, a straight-laced numbers whiz who falls for the escort she hires to help her work on relationships.
Steve Inskeep speaks with Patrick Radden Keefe of The New Yorker magazine, who wrote a profile of Anthony Bourdain in 2017. Bourdain's employer, CNN, reports the celebrity chef is dead at 61.
In Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth writes about an undercover investigation in which he — an African-American police detective — convinced the Ku Klux Klan that he was one of them.
Melody Herzfeld sheltered dozens of students during the February shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. On Sunday, she'll receive a Tony Award for excellence in education.
Zhou Haohui's high-octane cop drama Death Notice aims for Dragon Tattoo-type thrills, but gets dragged down by flat characterizations and odd romantic flourishes.
The National Endowment for the Arts says that since its last survey period in 2012, the number of U.S. adults reading poetry had nearly doubled. And the agency says social media may be responsible.
Filmmaker Morgan Neville says he gets asked one question more than any other: Was Fred Rogers as nice as he appeared on TV? Won't You Be My Neighbor? answers that question with an emphatic yes.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the hit show Sex and the City, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the woman who inspired it all, Candace Bushnell. Bushnell wrote a column under the same name for the New York Observer in the mid-90s.