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Originally a popular Tumblr, Pop Sonnets makes iambic hay out of modern artists like Kesha and Eminem. Critic Tasha Robinson explains why Sonnets isn't your average impulse-buy humor book.

Correction:This story wrongly says the Really Really Free Store will move in March to a building next door. The Free Store moved into that building this…

Store shelves and libraries are packed with post-apocalyptic, dystopian novels right now. Critic Jason Heller has some suggestions to help you wade through the floods. And the fires. And the fallout.

Workers always find ways to confide — through sign language on assembly lines or now, digitally, on private Slack channels. But privacy experts warn these spaces may not be as safe as they seem.

Barbie commercials have come a long way since the 1950s, when one ad encouraged girls to want to get married. Today's commercials market the doll to boys and show girls dreaming about their careers.

Author Mitchell S. Jackson trains his formidable linguistic skills on his turbulent youth growing up in a poor black community in Portland, Ore., one of the whitest cities in the country.

Alcalá de Henares is re-evaluating the status of hundreds of church holdings that have been exempt from paying property tax for hundreds of years.

Some great noir fiction has been written about Los Angeles, but what happens when a different genre bleeds through? We've got three tales of murder, magic and robot detectives to cool your summer.

To celebrate four years of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, we highlight teachers whose students have shined.

Laura Meier, a Democrat, is running for her second term. Standing in her way is Republican Matthew Ridenhour, who previously held the seat.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools launched its first esports league in 2022 and is looking for more success in its second season.

A free-spirited mom, fresh from prison, kidnaps her 6-year-old from foster care, determined that her family will not be separated again in the drama A Thousand and One.

The recent Alabama court decision about frozen embryos is having a ripple effect in Florida, where a bill would have let parents collect damages for the loss of a pregnancy.

Former President Donald Trump credited the "grace of God" for his survival of the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 in his return to the site for a rally on Saturday.

The Justice Department has foiled four assassination plots on American soil in the past year and a half. Such attempts are not new and often involve U.S. allies.

The FIFA World Cup is thought to bring an economic windfall to the cities and regions where games will be played during four weeks this summer. How true is that?

"I always wanted to take my mother to the Grammys and now I will." Alfredois up for best rap album, but that won't stop Freddie Gibbs from making the music he wants to make.

The Sundance Film Festival returned in-person to Park City, Utah, this year, and with more submissions than ever. NPR's Aisha Harris screened nearly 20 films — these are her favorites.

Dutch scientists cooked up the first hamburger made from laboratory-grown meat. Researcher Nicholas Genovese, who is studying stem cell lines for in vitro meat, and journalist Josh Schonwald, who ate the burger, give us their review.

A decade after the MTV era ended, music videos are enjoying an Internet-fueled rebirth. Racy, interactive and homemade videos now go viral regularly and corporate partnerships and industry recognition are boosting budgets.