A Podcast Playlist For All Those Looking For Love (Stories)
NPR may not be able to help you with your love life, but we do have something else to offer this Valentine's Day: a playlist of the best love stories in podcasting.
Arts & Life
A New Monologue For Eve Ensler, Re-Enacting Life With Cancer
The playwright and activist behind The Vagina Monologues stars in the new one-woman show In The Body Of The World, which explores her efforts to empower women in Africa amid her own health struggles.
In 'Catnip,' Love And Loss Sketched Out In Cat Cartoons
Michael Korda's new book Catnip: A Love Story collects the doodles that he created based on his wife's cats in order to comfort her during her battle with a malignant brain tumor.
Not My Job: We Quiz The Mayor Of South Bend, Ind. About North Bend, Wash.
Pete Buttigieg is a Harvard graduate, a Rhodes scholar, an Afghanistan veteran and the millennial mayor of an Indiana city. We ask him three questions — about a small town in Washington state.
'Winterfolk' Cloaks Harsh Reality In Fairy Tale Mist
Janel Kolby's novel about a fairy-tale-loving young girl living in a homeless encampment outside of Seattle is a brutally realist tale, told as if it happened once-upon-a-time.
YouTube Pulls Ads From Vlogger Logan Paul After He Uses Taser On Dead Rats
The video platform has temporarily shut off his revenue stream, citing a "pattern of behavior" that the company says is potentially damaging to other creators.
New Oral History Captures The Magic Of 'Angels In America'
Authors Isaac Butler and Dan Kois celebrate Angels in a new book, The World Only Spins Forward, that collects the memories of everyone from playwright Tony Kushner to Congressman Barney Frank.
Remembering John Mahoney, The Tony Award-Winning Actor And 'Frasier' Star
Mahoney, who died Sunday, was born in Britain and didn't start acting until he was 37. He went on to appear in films like Say Anything and Barton Fink. Originally broadcast 1990.
Clint Eastwood Celebrates Old-Fashioned Heroism In 'The 15:17 To Paris'
In 2015, three Americans on a Paris-bound train stopped a terrorist attack in progress. Eastwood recreates the incident — and audaciously casts the real-life heroes as themselves — in his new film.
Do You Know This Justice? Massachusetts High Court Wants You To Help ID Him
There's a portrait of a mystery man hanging in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He may have been a judge between 1780 and 1820. Maybe. Officials are appealing to the public for any insights.