LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice, measure the emptiness by its small sound. So begins In the Dream House, a new memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. It's an examination of sexuality that...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The enormous anti-government protests in Chile over the past few weeks have brought thousands together in song. (SOUNDBITE OF PROTEST) UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Singing in foreign language). SIMON: Last week, thousands in Santiago were...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: American Son opens in a Miami police station in the middle of the night or a worried mother frets about her missing son and is frustrated at the lack of information she gets from a police officer who tells her he understands. He's...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Researchers have long been puzzled by the relationship between sleep and Alzheimer's. New research may help solve that puzzle. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a study suggesting that the brain waves produced during deep sleep t...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Edward Norton's new movie, Motherless Brooklyn, is the first he wrote, directed and stars in. It's set in New York in the 1950s, a noir detective film. Norton plays Lionel, a private eye with Tourette's syndrome. (SOUNDBITE O...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: If you are someone who depends on e-books from the library, it could take a lot longer to get that hot new book you want. That is because starting today, Macmillan Publishers, one of the five largest publishing houses in the...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Harriet Tubman was an American with a story that's almost hard to believe. Born Araminta Ross in Maryland, Tubman escaped slavery and then returned to the South several times to save others still enslaved. The new movie Harriet e...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Elizabeth Warren today answered some big questions about how she would implement Medicare for All if she's elected president. Rivals and reporters have been pressing Warren for details on how she would fund a government-run health...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Elizabeth Warren today answered some big questions about how she would implement Medicare for All if she's elected president. Rivals and reporters have been pressing Warren for details on how she would fund a government-run health...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Wildfires in northern and southern California have driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. Some have endured wildfires, smoke, floods, blackouts and evacuations many times before. And while California's populatio...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's learn about the guy who was on the other end of that phone call, the call where President Trump asked for a favor, a favor from the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. If there were ever a person stuck in a place he n...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Turn on HBO this Sunday night, and you will see an epic adventure unfold. It's a perilous rescue mission set in a fantastical world filling a Game Of Thrones sized hole in the network's programming. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, HIS...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The U.S. stock market is still humming, despite the ongoing trade war and some temporary setbacks like the General Motors strike. Employers added 128,000 jobs in October, and that's more than forecasters were expecting. Job gains...
MILES PARKS, HOST: This is your NPR LIFE KIT on information and, maybe more importantly, false information and how to see through it or avoid it. I'm Miles Parks with the NPR Politics team. Let's start with a story that shows just how high the stakes...
Fear In An Age Of Real-Life Horror KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, HOST: We've been thinking a lot about race and friendships here at CODE SWITCH; about what we've learned about race through our friendships and also when we've made big mistakes or been really h...
