At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about what it was ...

The author's vivid, fluid Fish Tales was reissued this spring to great acclaim. Here, the master writer discusses her life, the power of audacity, and how to write sex on the page ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

Civil rights leaders have oft used their voices as a force for good. Today, on Juneteenth 2025, we recognize some of those ...

Eminent critic and writer Nasir Abbas Nayyar delivered a lecture at the Arts Council of Pakistan in Karachi on May 30, 2025, ...

Next to actually writing songs, the most difficult thing a band has to do is come up with a name. It is not easy.

Local librarian and rapper Roy D'Angelo Kinsey Jr. is fundraising to publish a book that uplifts Black LGBTQ+ youth.

Riley Keough, Miley Cyrus, Mariska Hargitay, Patty Jenkins, Beanie Feldstein, Parker Posey and Carrie Coon were among the A-listers in attendance at the event.

Over the years, the director’s early films have been lost and found, forgotten and celebrated. But what about the work that ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about the 10-year anniversary of his landmark publication "Between the World and Me." ...