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In Our Boys, Joe Drape follows a small-town Kansas football team on their quest for a fifth-consecutive perfect season. An emotional celebration of Great Plains values, Our Boys does for football what Hoosiers did for hoops.

From jazzy a cappella to accordion, artists are reinventing Bach's music in creative new ways. Critic Tom Manoff spotlights some of his favorites.

Some say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI models.

Beach House and Mitski and Spoon, oh my! Here are the tracks public radio is spinning over and over this year.

Almost 16,000 of you voted in our Best Beach Books poll. Whether such a vote can determine literary quality, who can say? But if there's one thing a multitude of book-loving NPR types can definitely do, it's pick books that appeal ... to book-loving NPR types.

Next week the people of Scotland vote on whether to become independent from the U.K. Author Marie Mutsuki Mockett recommends a book that illuminates the Scottish psyche, Iain Banks' The Crow Road.

A family tragedy intersects with a Shakespearean tragedy when a construction worker gets roped into performing in a community theater production of Romeo & Juliet. (Story aired on ATC on June 14, 2024.)

A family tragedy intersects with a Shakespearean tragedy in this gentle indie dramedy when a construction worker gets roped into performing in a community theater Romeo & Juliet.

We've been in space for the past two weeks, so we're coming down to earth with Giacomo Puccini's "wild west" opera "The Girl of the Golden West." Our Minnie on this 1958 recording is the wonderful Renata Tebaldi, her love, the bandit Ramirez, is Mario Del Monaco, and the scheming sheriff who also loves Minnie is Cornell MacNeil.