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Susan Choi departs from research-heavy books to write about people and relationships — and winds up writing about love and sex. My Education looks at a graduate student who doesn't learn what she anticipated.

The 89-year-old, Tony Award-winning Broadway star is the subject of a new documentary, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me. She spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about seeing herself on screen.

NPR's Audie Cornish checks back in with Anita Lynch, a 74-year-old delegate for Bernie Sanders from Denver. She is a former science teacher and substance abuse counselor. As part of our series of voter conversations, we reconnect with voters and take the temperature of how they're feeling about the election since we last met them.

When she broke the rules to run the men's-only race in 1966, "my father actually thought that I was deranged."

When his mother was turning 90, music critic Lloyd Schwartz wrote poems that put her memories into verse. Composer Mohammed Fairouz set three of the poems to music on the new recording, No Orpheus.

In part three of The Bind that Ties, we hear two women who are such good friends, they call themselves twin sisters – even though Gabriela Pickett is from Mexico and Severa Mwiza is from Rwanda.

A Maine grocery store cashier relays her experience with the reality of being on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.

A caller from Nashville, TN said: "You'll comply with everything you have to for your probation except that one thing: you'll still do drugs."

Twitter users revealed their abortion experiences under the tag #YouKnowMe after actress and late-night host Busy Philipps shared hers.

Swedish actor and playwright Jonas Karlsson ventures into fiction with The Room, a surreal tale of a dour bureaucrat who finds a tiny secret room at his workplace, a room which may or may not be real.