'Mrs. America': A Star-Studded Cast Puts The ERA In The Spotlight The Hulu series Mrs. America follows the epic battle between Phyllis Schlafly on one side and a battery of 1970s feminist activists on the other. Linda Holmes
'I don't want to just fade away' says retiring ballet dancer Benjamin Griffiths Benjamin Griffiths is like so many of us who’ve been sequestered at home during the pandemic; He’s reading, streaming movies, and he works out every day. “I’m in pretty good shape for a normal person,” he says. Marcie Sillman
'i dream of covid' Tracks Subconscious Under Quarantine Many people are reporting strange and vivid dreams while in quarantine. Erin Gravley, a Bay Area resident, decided to track those dreams on her website i dream of covid in hopes of finding patterns.
Actors, Singers Raise Money For CDC Charity With Virtual Seder Hollywood stars, Jews and non-Jews, celebrated Passover by streaming a Seder online Saturday night. It raised some $2 million for the CDC Foundation's Emergency Response Fund to battle COVID-19. Elizabeth Blair
#NPRPoetry Month: Tracy K. Smith NPR's Tom Gjelten speaks with Tracy K. Smith, 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, about her favorite listener-submitted poems for National Poetry Month.
Life Kit: How To Engage With Poetry For National Poetry Month, NPR's Life Kit team offers some tips to help you better appreciate the art form — and encourages listeners to write their own haikus. Andrew Limbong
Set 1,500 Years From Now, 'The Last Emperox' Is Still Pretty Timely In the last installment of Scalzi's Interdependency trilogy, a ruler must fight to save a galactic empire threatened by greed, complacency and the collapse of vital resources. Sound familiar? Scott Simon
He crawled out of homelessness. Now he's struggling to stop coronavirus from knocking him back down Restaurant workers who’ve been laid off as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are navigating a new reality that’s temporary yet filled with many uncertainties. Ruby de Luna
Marc Maron: End Times Fun Comedian Marc Maron talks about his career, his new special, End Times Fun, and honing his skills as an actor. Then, he takes a quiz about the 2019 movie, Cats (which he hasn't seen).
Funky Stuff Friend-testants Aimee Mann and Michael Penn join Jonathan Coulton in a game that rewrites funk songs to be about things that are funky.