MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Lulu Garcia-Navarro spent this past week along the border in southeast Texas, reporting stories that you will hear on next week's show. Before she left, she spoke with a comedian who grew up there and has brought elements of...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Is it possible to write a coming-of-age novel for a main character who is 39 years old? If so, Jami Attenberg may have written it. It's called All Grown Up, and the central character is likeable even when she's not. She is ju...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, in recent years, we've heard a number of stories about the ways the criminal justice system has failed someone or some people. It's always painful, and it's always troubling. But it's particularly troubling when th...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now let's hear about the man The New Yorker magazine calls, quote, the thinking man's guitar hero, unquote. Gary Lucas has played just about everywhere with just about everyone from Captain Beefheart to DJ Spooky to John Sebastia...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Making your morning cup of java about now? Then this one's for you. Indonesia's most populous island shares its name with that piping hot beverage. And as NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Jakarta, big changes have been brewing...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Netflix film I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore mixes the gruesome and the goofy. How do you score a movie like that? For help, the directors turned to two of his oldest associates, his brothers. Tim Greiving has the st...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, The Greatest Show On Earth will hoist its big top for the last time this spring, but circus arts are evolving. NPR's Jeff Lunden reports on a festival that's focused on human perf...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A few years ago, Chimamanda Adichie received a message from a childhood friend asking for advice. She wanted to know how to raise her newborn daughter to be a feminist. Now for Adichie, a best-selling author who's also made a nam...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The movie The Last Word opens with a series of photographs. We see a baby then a little redheaded girl becoming an ingenue and, ultimately, a sprightly woman in her 80s. These are all pictures of Shirley MacLaine. She plays a chara...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In the last 17 years, Hugh Jackman has clawed his way through nine X-Men movies as Wolverine. Now in the film Logan, his mutant character is finally being allowed a change in style. Bob Mondello says Logan plays less like a super...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You would expect a trip into space would change a person - their heart, their soul, but their eyeballs? For years, a north Texas doctor has been trying to find out what causes this vision change among astronauts. Her latest researc...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Cross-dressing is still widely misunderstood. Many people who want to do it need a supportive environment in which to experiment. From member station WFUV in New York City, George Bodarky reports that Miss Vera's Finishing School F...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: What at first seemed like a standard bit of legalese has now created a controversy. The language appears in the contracts given to artists performing at this year's South by Southwest music festival. Musicians accuse the festival o...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This week, Puerto Ricans mark the centennial of Congress granting U.S. citizenship to those born on the island. In the years since, many Puerto Ricans have had to navigate a complicated dual identity. But one area in which they are...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The price of cocoa has collapsed on international markets. That's devastated hundreds of thousands of small farmers in West Africa, which produces most of the world's cocoa. Alex Duval Smith reports from San Pedro in Ivory Coast, t...
