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From championing women choreographers to upending classics, the former Royal Ballet star turned artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet doesn't play it safe.

Erica Jong's novel, Fear of Flying, broke ground with frank discussions of feminism and sex when it came out in 1973. NPR's Sarah McCammon asks Molly Jong-Fast about her mother's legacy 50 years on.

A community fishery in Cambodia was struggling. There weren't enough fish to make ends meet, until local fishermen started planting a specific type of tree.

Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera.

Billy Idol was punk in the 1970s, a pop star in the '80s, and now his rock 'n' roll excess is the subject of a Hulu documentary called Billy Idol Should Be Dead. It begins streaming on March 26.

About 20 U.S. airports rely on private security companies rather than the Transportation Security Administration to ensure that passengers and cargo comply with federal aviation safety standards.

In Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, author Ben Reeves imagines Death as an ordinary man. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about love, loss and what mortality can teach us about living.

"Extreme heat" is in the forecast this summer. How do people cope if they don't have air conditioning? Here are suggestions from a heat researcher who grew up in a very hot, AC-less place.

From being a regular at the White House to Saturday Night Live, Grohl writes about his life in his new memoir, “The Storyteller.”

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's album addresses the most common hazards among those 13-24, through a variety of genres. It's called We're Safety Now Haven't We, and you'll want to hear it.