This comic, illustrated by Chelsea Saunders, is inspired by an interview with chef Sean Sherman from TED Radio Hour's episode The Food Connection. Chelsea Saunders for NPR Chelsea Saunders for NPR About Sean Sherman Chef Sean Sherman is the founder of "The Sioux Chef," a company committed to revitalizing and ...

Playwright Terrence McNally pictured at a Tony Awards function in 2019. Ilya S. Savenok | Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro Updated May 13, 2022 at 9:08 AM ET Here are just some of the many cultural figures, trailblazers and creative forces the U.S. lost to COVID-19. Mike Longo, 83 ...

Penguin Press Nasty, Brutish, and Short by Scott Hershovitz starts out like a fable. Once upon a time, the author — director of the Law and Ethics Program and professor of law and philosophy at the University of Michigan — begot two sons, Rex and Hank, whom he has been ...

Penguin Random House Trust by Hernan Diaz is one of those novels that's always pulling a fast one on a reader. Take the opening section: You settle in, become absorbed in the story and, then, 100 pages or so later — Boom! — the novel lurches into another narrative that ...

Country star Naomi Judd died by suicide following a long struggle with mental illness. Her daughter, Ashley Judd, said that it was important to make a distinction "between our loved one and the disease." Stephen Cohen | Getty Images Ashley Judd revealed a number of details about the death of ...

Tarriona "Tank" Ball, singer of Tank and The Bangas, photographed on Jan. 24, 2020 in West Hollywood, Calif. Anna Webber | Getty Images for Instagram/Faceb Tank and The Bangas has come a long way since winning the 2017 Tiny Desk Contest, going on to be nominated for Best New Artist ...

For decades, women artists have been fighting to get their work on museum gallery walls. Recently, the battle is being won: Various exhibitions across the country feature female's work. Once visitors notice the change, they see that art can be different when women wield the paintbrushes. Sometimes. And sometimes not. ...

Dave Chappelle last month at the opening of Netflix is a Joke. Phillip Faraone | Getty Images for Netflix The Los Angeles County district attorney has defended his decision to not file felony charges against the man who attacked comedian Dave Chappelle last week. Isaiah Lee, 23, remains behind bars, ...

Meghan Collins Sullivan | NPR Imagine a job from which women were routinely fired for gaining a few pounds, getting married, becoming pregnant — or simply turning 32. Picture a workplace in which supervisors routinely patted female employees to make sure they were wearing girdles, and had a dress code ...

Rick Riordan, author of the best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians, has some pointed words for critics of the decision to cast Leah Jeffries as the character Annabeth Chase in the upcoming Disney+ series based on the books. Jeffries is a person of color. In the books, Annabeth is white. ...