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Kevin Anderson/Courtesy of the artistMorby's Little Wide Open is a love letter to a part of the country he finds endlessly inspiring. -
Deanne Fitzmaurice for NPREven as the band has changed and reinvented itself, the Grateful Dead's fanbase has proven to be uniquely and consistently renewable — a cosmic inheritance passed down from one generation to the next, welcoming younger Deadheads with open arms.
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In 1967, at the age of 20, artist James Wyeth unveiled his controversial posthumous portrait of former President John F. Kennedy. -
Daniel Mason's new novel is a spin on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which academics collide with locals — and a few seductive fairies — in the woods of Vermont. -
This month brings riveting novels about dogs, Hollywood stars, small towns and characters with bigger woes than just the sweltering summer heat and humidity. -
As soon as the weather warms up, fans of the Grateful Dead partake in an important summer tradition: gathering together to experience the band's music. -
Charlie Puth, one of the biggest pop hitmakers of the last decade, turns the Tiny Desk into a jazz club. -
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Russia expert Hanna Notte about her new book "We Shall Outlast Them," in which she details how President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is also a war on the West.
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Historian Micki McElya revisits one September afternoon in 1968, Atlantic City, when the Miss America pageant collided with a changing country. Her new book is Liberation Summer.
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Her new novel "Solstice" interweaves Adam and Eve, a troubled marriage, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -
BTS announced last week that the group would not be submitting an entry for consideration. -
The Grateful Dead endured an original run of 30 years, but its appeal has survived just as long in a world where the band no longer exists. The question now is not whether the music will continue, but how?
