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Book reviewer Alan Cheuse picks five exciting summer reads, ranging from short stories of grim Irish mayhem to a North Carolina lynching and a corpse in an iceberg, to Southern California cocaine capers and a pure-trash adventure starring U.S. special forces and a world-threatening comet.

Virtuosic pianist and composer Beethoven suffered from several debilitating ailments. A new study suggests lead poisoning may be at least partly to blame.

8G appears in their last Late Night episode on Thursday after a decade backing Seth Meyers. It joins the ranks of groundbreaking late night bands.

The game show host was a weatherman in Los Angeles before starting on Wheel of Fortune in 1981.

You know that feeling when someone you're dating does this one thing that you just can't look past? Here's what scientists say about why we react this way and whether the feeling is reversible.

Duolingo's mascot faked his death to get users to do their daily lessons, and attention from pop star Dua Lipa. Here's how he masterminded it — and why one expert sees the campaign as a success.

Lamar's duet with SZA samples Luther Vandross' 1982 hit "If This World Were Mine." The song was written by Marvin Gaye, who himself recorded it in 1967 as a duet with Tammi Terrell.

The new novel follows a black journalist in Kansas City in the aftermath of the Civil War. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with LaShonda Katrice Barnett about her book.

Actor, writer and director Jesse Eisenberg says he has had more failures than successes. In this week's Wild Card, he opens up about ambition and his his defense against despair.

Since President Trump took over leadership of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this year, some artists are trying to figure out how to proceed. One musician emailed the interim director, Richard Grenell. He responded.