Specials

Ocean Vuong's new collection, Time Is A Mother, is about his grief after losing family members.

Orphan Bachelors, the title of Fae Myenne Ng's new memoir, is a reference to the many "grandpas" she had while growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Quantum entanglement defies our everyday understanding of reality. Even Einstein didn’t believe it, but science has proven it true.

Lizards are incredibly widespread and diverse but it took them a long time to get to where they are now because they used to face some pretty stiff competition from a group of lizard look-alikes.

The Color Purple remake drops this week, and to celebrate, we're bringing you this special episode from our play cousins over at Pop Culture Happy Hour. Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple has been adapted a few times. Next week, the new movie The Color Purple hits theaters – it's based on the Tony-winning musical.

Uncover the truth about a pervasive epidemic that threatens bighorn sheep.

Why are states with stringent environmental regulations dumping their toxic waste onto a poor Alabama town?

J. Ryan Stradal knows about supper club culture in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the rest of the northern midwest – he grew up in a town where those dining establishments blurred the lines between restaurant and social club, family and community.

Today's episode features interviews with two authors who are very invested in the English language. First, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Hana Videen about her new book, The Wordhord, which collects words and phrases from Old English – like Beowulf – to examine and understand life during medieval times.

The chemical that makes chili peppers so hot evolved to keep animals from eating the plants, but humans have learned to like the sensation.