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Fresh Air's book critic says her 2017 list is chaotic in a good way. "These books zing off in all directions: They're fresh, unruly and dismissive of the canned and contrived."

Actress Jenifer Lewis' new memoir, The Mother of Black Hollywood, explores her decades-long career and her role as the mom character to black actors in TV and film.

An exhibition of theater lobby cards at New York's Poster House celebrates women's contributions to silent movies both in front and behind the camera.

NPR's Scott Simon asks book editor Jenny Jackson about her debut novel, "Pineapple Street," set in the well-to-do Brooklyn Heights section of New York City.

A harrowing and unprecedented trial in France is exposing how pornography, chatrooms and men’s disdain for or hazy understanding of consent is fueling rape culture.

Pakistani men cram into so-called "dirty theatres" where women dance suggestively in tight clothes. The theatres survive, despite increasing conservatism.

The recent trade war between the U.S. and Canada has both economic and political implications for Michigan, given it's the state's top trade partner.

Here is a profile of a man who drove vice presidents and governors, wealthy landowners, visiting artists, and the prominent of Bloomington-Normal all…

Nearly five months after Bloomington aldermen voted to create a new police advisory group, the board’s seven appointed members will meet for the first…

The acquittal last week of a white former St. Louis police officer in the shooting death of a 24-year-old African-American suspect has its roots in a 1989…