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And then there were 40: This week, the National Book Foundation revealed the writers who are still in contention for its literary prize. It capped the rollout Thursday with the fiction nominees.

Poet JOHN BALABAN has translated the poetry of an 18th century Vietnamese concubine in the new book, –Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuang Huong— (Copper Canyon Press) Ho Xuang Huong won acclaim for her poetry despite the fact that she was a woman and she challenged established conventions. Most of her poems also were double entendres: a hidden sexual meaning lay behind her words. BALABAN was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war, and went back to the country after the war to collect and preserve Vietnamese folk poetry. BALABAN is also the author of a memoir, and of several books of his own poetry.

Baltimore native David Rubenstein would become the team control person as the lead investor in a group that also includes Maryland sports legends.

Over fifty Maryland advocacy groups joined students at a rally Wednesday calling for immediate action from Governor Wes Moore, state lawmakers and Hopkins leaders to protect student rights.

Covered California's executive director, Peter Lee, said UnitedHealth Group Inc. made its own mistakes on rates and networks that led to a $475 million loss on individual policies in 2015.

Marin Alsop took the podium of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra fourteen years ago--the first woman to lead a major U.S. orchestra. She's stepping down later this month and going out with a bang.

In his new play The Other Americans, John Leguizamo stars as a Colombian Puerto Rican laundromat owner whose son is released from a mental wellness facility after suffering a trauma.

Writer John T. Edge has spent much of his career telling stories about a changing American South filtered through the lens of food and culture. Now he's talking about his troubled family's history.

"It starts out with one little thought, and then slowly that becomes the only thought that you're able to have," Green says. His new novel, Turtles All The Way Down, is about a teenage girl with OCD.

Six writers emerged with the literary prize: Whitehead in fiction; Ibram X. Kendi in nonfiction; Daniel Borzutzky in poetry; and Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell in young people's literature.

Tricky has created his own sound world over the past 25 years, built from broken hip-hop beats, forlorn chanteuses, and shadowy mutters. In this episode, he talks about the impact of Nirvana, Billie Holiday, and T. Rex on his life.

In this episode, members Jasper Llewellyn and Mike O’Malley of the British group caroline discuss the music that shaped the band’s sound.

Richard Thompson is an English singer-songwriter whose work spans over five decades and who has likely influenced many of your favorite bands and musicians with his distinct, virtuosic guitar-playing.

The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late playwright Athol Fugard. Kunene and the King is Kani's latest project.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews John Sales'' new movie, "The Secret of Roan Innish."

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "The John Coltrane Anthology: The Last Giant" (Rhino/Atlantic).

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "Henry James'' Midnight Song" by Carol De Chellis Hill.

We commemorate Fresh Air's 30th anniversary as a nationally syndicated show with interviews from our first years on air. Kazan and Spector spoke to Terry Gross in '88. Updike's interview is from '89.

Kroll and Mulaney relive puberty in their animated Netflix series.Kevin Whitehead reviews two new compilations of Nina Simone's early work.Jones talks about playing a fish man in The Shape of Water.

Filmmaker JOHN MCNAUGHTON, whose first film was the cult hit of 1990, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer". "We all have the murderous urge," MCNAUGHTON says of his main charater in that film, who as an anonymous everyman, kills many people without recognition nor retribution from society at large. Hailed by some critics as a slasher movie stripped bare of that genre's fantasy elements, "Henry" caught the eye of director Martin Scorcese, who backed MCNAUGHTON for this year's "Mad Dog And Glory", which starred Scorcese regular Robert DeNiro. Film director WALTER HILL. His newest film, which he produced and directed is "Geronimo: An American Legend." He's best known for action-oriented films which include, "Hard Times," "The Long Riders," "48 HRS," "Streets of Fire," and others.