Arts & Life

The video of James Corden and Adele doing "Carpool Karaoke" has more than 80 million views on YouTube.

Arts

James Corden Conquers YouTube With 'Carpool Karaoke'

6:18pm March 08, 2016

by Ari Shapiro

The British comedian and Late Late Show host hit big with his star-studded carpool singalong videos. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Corden about how it all started — and singing with Justin Bieber.

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Music director Alex Lacamoire and actor/composer Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrate onstage during a Hamilton performance for the Grammy Awards at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York on Feb. 15.

Watching A Brown 'Hamilton' With A White Audience

4:59pm March 08, 2016

by Gene Demby

The hit musical recasts the Founding Fathers as people of color engaged in rap battles. But on a recent night, ticket buyers largely looked the way Broadway audiences have always looked. What gives?

Nancy Reagan, left, and the Soviet First Lady, Raisa Gorbachev, both smile politely during a tension-filled tea in Geneva in 1985, while their husbands discussed nuclear disarmament.

Cold War, Hot Tea: Nancy Reagan And Raisa Gorbachev's Sipping Summit

4:12pm March 08, 2016

by Nina Martyris

In 1985, while their husbands discussed nuclear disarmament, the two first ladies — both considered influential advisers — held their own tense tea tête-à-têtes in Geneva.

An Addict, Now Clean, Discusses Needle Exchanges And 'Hope After Heroin'

3:38pm March 08, 2016

At the height of her addiction to heroin, Tracey Helton Mitchell lived in an alley and sold her body. Now she works as an addiction specialist helping others. Her new memoir is The Big Fix.

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Israeli sisters (from left) Liron, Tair and Tagel Haim, who make up the band A-WA, perform in Jerusalem.

In Honor Of #InternationalWomensDay, A Playlist Of Ladies Who Rock

2:27pm March 08, 2016

by Maanvi Singh

Check out the songs (and back stories) of women musicians from around the world.

Books
Arts

Unnerving WWII Noir In 'A Man Lies Dreaming'

12:41pm March 08, 2016

by Jason Heller

Lavie Tidhar's new alternate history imagines a world where Communists took over Germany in 1933, Fascism is on the rise in the U.K. and a down and out German PI in London dreams of world domination.

Books
Arts

'Charlie Chan Hock Chye' Offers A Heartfelt Take On Aging, Art And History

11:07am March 08, 2016

by John Powers

John Powers reviews a new graphic novel that he describes as an astonishing work of imagination by the Singaporean writer and illustrator Sonny Liew. It's called The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye.

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Connie Sawyer, 103, got into show business when she was 8. She's lived on the Motion Picture and Television Fund campus since 2004.

A Retirement Community Where Hollywood Takes Care Of Its Own

10:50am March 08, 2016

by Susan Stamberg

The Motion Picture and Television Fund is home to 200-plus residents who once worked on screen, behind cameras and in production rooms and secretarial pools.

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Cover image of Imbeciles, by Adam Cohen.

The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced Sterilizations

10:11am March 08, 2016

In the first half of the 20th century, American eugenicists used forced sterilization to "breed out" traits they considered undesirable. Adam Cohen tells the story in his new book, Imbeciles.

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Books
Arts

In 'The End Of Karma,' Young Indians Work To Overcome Their Past

4:30pm March 07, 2016

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Somini Sengupta, the former New Delhi bureau chief for The New York Times, about her book, The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young.