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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with a legend of jazz, Herb Alpert, who has just released his 50th album. It is called "50."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to basketball star Steph Curry and his wife, author Ayesha Curry, about their efforts to tackle childhood illiteracy in Oakland.

Jean Brodie, Minerva McGonagall, Violet Crawley: Maggie Smith embodied these memorable roles on stage and screen. NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance of the actor, who died yesterday at the age of 89.

“Every movie I make involves passion,” writer and director Francis Ford Coppola says. “The Godfather is very classical. Apocalypse Now is very wild.” His latest, Megalopolis, is a Roman epic – set in New Rome, a futuristic New York City.

A shipwrecked robot named Roz is accidentally activated by the wild animals on an otherwise uninhabited island in The Wild Robot, an animated adventure from the makers of How to Train Your Dragon.

Japan's ruling party has elected a new leader: former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba. He promises continuity, but has also proposed striking changes to the country's dealings with the United States.

Oscar, Emmy and Tony winning actress Maggie Smith, who played everything from ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the dowager countess in Downton Abbey, has died at 89.

No team in baseball's modern history has lost more game than this year's Chicago White Sox. On Thursday, thousands of fans came out to bid the dreadful season goodbye.

The American Library Association's president, Cindy Hohl, is at the forefront of the fight against book censorship — a fight the ALA and other First Amendment groups have been losing.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Nick Kryczka about the American Historical Association's new report on how U.S. history is taught in middle and high schools across America.