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Author Anne Fadiman is in love with the English language. In her new book, a collection of familiar essays called At Large and At Small, she celebrates the nearly forgotten form of Romantic-era essayists such as Charles Lamb.

The Mumlers' new album, Don't Throw Me Away, defies simple categorization. The band's brooding, minor-key songs, led by "Raise the Blinds," suggest a New Orleans-style jazz funeral, with pit stops in the American folk tradition and Southern Gothic music.

The host of All Songs Considered shares the albums he loved this year. Many of Bob Boilen's favorite albums of 2013 were danceable. Many were intimate. Some managed to be both at once.

In an excerpt from the podcast Memory Wars, a descendant of Holocaust survivors takes back her heritage by moving to her ancestral homeland in Germany.

American Frances Tiafoe, 24, has reached the quarterfinals for the first time. Of the eight men left at the U.S Open, six are ranked outside of the top 10.

The plane crashed into Lake Victoria after taking off from Dar es Salaam. Authorities said at least 26 people who were on the Precision Air flight were rescued and taken to the hospital.

The move by Attorney General Jeff Sessions comes after a federal judge blocked a key part of the directive, the threat of withholding federal funds.

Their companions are recovering in a U.S. hospital. So far, only one arrest has been made in relation to the kidnapping.

Sir the Baptist grew up on the South Side of Chicago. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the singer and rapper about how music became his way of picking up where his father left off.

A century later, this story is being told on the big screen.

Plus, Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck sits down to talk about making his first album since 2018.

The Nashville-based musician talks about her new record and performs in front of a live studio audience at World Cafe.

Petey, the LA-based musician and social media personality, performs songs from his latest record, USA.

The Virginia Beach native talks about capturing the tumult of early adulthood on TWENTY SOMETHING.

The songwriter, guitarist and singer grounded her seventh studio album in the beauty and brutality of real life.

The pair perform songs from their collaborative jazz album, Milton + esperanza.

The actress and singer-songwriter takes a more optimistic turn on her third studio record.

Bakery owner Manolo Betancur collected donations this week for hurricane victims. Betancur and volunteers packed up and headed to Marion Thursday morning to drop them off.

Decimated by hunters, insecticides and other human pressures in the 1960s and 1970s, America's emblematic bird is once again flying high. Roughly 10,000 mated pairs now nest in the continental U.S., up from about 500 in the 1970s. But more birds also means fierce competition for territory and mates.

In preparation for a book about Abraham Lincoln's life at the end of the Civil War, historian Noah Andre Trudeau is in search of witnesses. The last week of Lincoln's life in April 1865 is a largely unexamined period. Trudeau is seeking diary entries, letters or stories of people who encountered Lincoln at the time.