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Host Michel Martin speaks with podcaster Ashley Flowers about her novel All Good People Here.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with swamp pop artist Tommy McLain about releasing a new album for the first time in 40 years and what the genre means to him.

Wall Street Journal reporters Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell say that champion cyclist Lance Armstrong was at the center of "the greatest sports conspiracy ever." Their book chronicles everything from group blood transfusions on the team bus to extensive efforts to silence and intimidate those who might expose the abuse.

They started as fans — unusually proactive fans from all over the world who met online through their shared love for New Orleans music. They wound up starting an unusual record label serving many of the city's best musicians.

Any new recording from the spectacular saxophonist James Carter is guaranteed to produce fireworks. But his new album, Caribbean Rhapsody, is his grandest work yet: It's an orchestral collaboration with the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra.

NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

After the pandemic shut down fashion's biggest night in 2020, the Met Gala came back on the 75th anniversary of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The current rap capital thrives on a thrilling contradiction: Its best music is at once hyperlocal and globally accessible, true to its roots but built for scale.

The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."

During President Trump's first term, transgender troops were told they needed to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria to keep their jobs. Now, the military is using that to put them on administrative leave.