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How do the stories we tell shape the boundaries of our beliefs about what is possible?

The hunt for a book of seditious poems is at the heart of medievalist Bruce Holsinger's detail-packed new novel; poet and fixer John Gower is hunting for the book, at the behest of his friend Geoffrey Chaucer. Reviewer Jean Zimmerman says "filth of the street is likely to suck off the occasional shoe," but in the end, the experience is enjoyable.

As 2020 draws to a close, the music of Chanukah and Christmas reminds so many of us of our treasured holiday traditions and the things we’re thankful for,…

A blossoming teen romance is derailed by racism.

Lidia Bastianich celebrates 25 years on television with family and celebrity friends.

Join the American Pops Orchestra to pay tribute to the leading men of the Great White Way.

NPR's Steve Inskeep revisits three Iranians he met last year to find out if their lives have changed because of Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers. "We are actually in a new world," says one.

In 2010, just minutes after sitting in on an interview with President Obama, NPR's Madhulika Sikka got a life-changing phone call: She had breast cancer. Her new book is a guide to what happens next.

Lora Lee Gayer and Bryce Pinkham perform Irving Berlin’s classic song, "White Christmas."

Appraisal: Egyptian-Ptolemaic Sculptor's Trial Piece, ca. 200 B.C.E.