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Lee reprises his 1986 film She's Gotta Have It in a new 10-part Netflix series. Though Frank packed his Netflix miniseries with train robberies and shootouts, Godless isn't exactly a typical Western.

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

We’ll go On the Record with Robert McCullough, Baltimore County’s new chief of police. McCullough began his career on the force as an 18-year old cadet. We ask about his plans to build community relationships and increase diversity in the department.

Boggs, famous for her role in helping shape the labor, civil rights and environmental movements in Detroit, has established a legacy of passionate and philosophical protest.

The Weekly Reader highlights humorous insights from beloved Young Adult author John Green, and solid writing advice from George Saunders.

1 in 68 U.S. children have an Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Maryland, 1 in 60 children are on the Spectrum.These statistics were released this spring in a…

How can art be a tool to better understand ourselves and the world around us? Poet Lee Mokobe shares what it was like to grow up trans in South Africa, and how language can be a tool for change.

Though these songs may sound like they were inspired by the pandemic, Aaron Lee Tasjan's had an anxious mind since before the lockdown.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Lee Hamilton, the former congressman from Indiana, who has won the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. He says diplomacy should come before force in the fight against ISIS.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with poet Li-Young Lee about his new collection of poetry, The Undressing. The book explores love, violence and the confusion between those emotional states.

In a half-century of prolific creativity, the writer John Irving has produced 14 novels, including The World According to Garp (which won him a National…

It's What Ya Got Cookin' in the summer. Tom talks with Chef Gwyn Novak from Solomon's Island and John Shield's, owner of Gertrude's at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

We get local reactions to Friday's historic Supreme Court ruling that upends a half century of abortion rights, and gives states the power to ban abortions.

Popularized by his gripping thrillers, author John Grisham's latest book is his second work of non-fiction. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions follows the stories of people falsely convicted of crimes, and the efforts to clear their names and return their freedom.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with American journalist Euna Lee about her four months in North Korea's labor camps and what recently detained American student Otto F. Warmbier might experience.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have been fighting hard to win over African-American voters. They're a critical voting bloc in Saturday's Democratic primary in South Carolina.

We’ll go On the Record with journalist John Frece to ask about his new biography of the late U.S. Senator Daniel Brewster. Brewster was rich, ambitious, attractive to voters -- until out-of-control drinking took over his life. How did he recover?

The massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and eight other monuments will move to the museum after the city council approves the plan.

Denzel Washington stars in a loose remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low. And four anthropomorphic turtles are back in theaters for an anniversary re-release.

Cartoonist STAN LEE-- the creator of such Marvel comic book superheroes as Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four, and The X-Men. He joined Marvel comic books at the age of 16, more than 40 years ago. The movie The X-Men, based on his comics, opens this weekend. (ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 10/17/91)Guest film critic HENRY Sheehan reviews the new film –Chuck and Buck.—12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY The Talented Mr. Ripley is now out on video. On the next archive edition of fresh air we hear from Anthony minghella who wrote and directed that film and the English patient. Also, an interview with Stan Lee, the creator of such comic book superheroes as Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men. The new X-Men movie opens this weekend. That and more coming up on the next Fresh Air.