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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Carolina de Robertis about her new novel, Cantoras, which traces the lives of five queer Uruguayan women whose lives are threatened by a brutal dictatorship.

The iconic group's early music releasing online at last comes with a renewed interest in its career arc. Take a guided tour through one of the most distinguished runs in hip-hop history.

With just three months until the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic candidates are trying to fire up their supporters in that state and make the case that they can defeat President Trump.

2: Photographer ROY DE CARAVA. A collection of his photographs, featuring leading jazz musicians and life in Harlem, spanning the past 50 years has been published recently: "Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective." (Museum of Moder

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Antoine de Saint Exupery , reporter Alice Furlaud pays tribute to the Franch aviator and beloved author of The Little Prince.

Dutch-born painter Willem de Kooning is remembered as the first modern art star. The story of his life and influence on 20th century American art is told in the book De Kooning: An American Master. Liane Hansen talks with the authors.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Lille, France where a trial is underway in the 1998 Tour de France doping scandal. Ten cyclists are charged with taking performance-enhancing drugs, but witnesses claim that officials were aware of their activities.

Director BRIAN DE PALMA. Now 53, he's the son of a orthopedic surgeon in Philadelphia, and sometimes watched his father's surgeries. Perhaps this explains the frequent depiction of blood and violence in many of his films, which include "Carrie", "Dressed to Kill", "The Fury", and "Scarface". His thrillers were often compared with those of Hitchcock. In the 1970's, De Palma, along with other young film directors Martin Scorcese, Steven Speilberg and Francis Coppola made films of such quality that the period is sometimes refered to as another Golden Age of Hollywood. De Palma returns to that era with his new film "Carlito's Way", which stars one of the great actors of the 70s, Al Pacino.

Register columnist Chuck Offenberger about why Iowa has the highest percentage in the country of people over the age 85.

He is the author of several books including How Proust Can Change Your Life, and The Consolations of Philosophy. His latest book, The Art of Travel, is a reflection on travel, the anticipation versus the reality, how one often travels to escape the familiar and mundane -- but can't escape oneself, and an examination of the art and literature of travel.