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The San Fermin singer, who has a new solo EP, says she wants to be a model for Asian-American girls who don't see themselves represented in rock music.

Each fall, the Ojibwe tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. It's a long process that brings families in canoes into the tall grasses. We journey to the rice lakes of White Earth Reservation to investigate how one tribe is using its traditions to support its people.

Adriana Martinez of Santa Clarita, Calif., remembers her uncle Carlos Herrera, 65, who died of COVID-19 last year. He listened to Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's version of the song when he felt down.

In 1966, a young Marine took a reel-to-reel tape recorder with him into the Vietnam War. For two months, until he was killed in action, Michael Baronowski made tapes of his friends, of life in foxholes, of combat. And he sent those audio letters home to Norristown, Pennsylvania. More than 30 years later a comrade brought those tapes to Lost amd Found Sound.

Almost a year after Elliott Smith's death, his highly anticipated sixth solo CD is being released. NPR's Elizabeth Blair talks to the friends and family who helped complete From a Basement on the Hill.

Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina opens with the line: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." A new book about Tolstoy's wife shows how their marriage seems to have fallen into the second category.

MacArthur Fellow Heather McHugh mines words for contradictions and double meanings, offering the reader an expansive, fresh perspective on themes like love and mortality.

Wanda Palmer barely survived the ordeal in June of 2020, when an assailant used what is believed to be a machete or hatchet to attack her in her home.

It's the latest development in a homicide case that continues to capture attention both in the U.S. and abroad.

Black authors have written some of the most inspiring literature of our time — but rarely get the attention they deserve.