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On thrilling debut albums by Squid, Dry Cleaning and Black Country, New Road, the aftershocks of '80s post-punk tremble against stark new realities in British and Irish life.

Many colleges and universities are cancelling or shortening the annual week off that's usually a rite of spring, but good vaccination news has people booking vacations over the summer months.

The intense political backlash over the academic approach of examining U.S. institutions through the lens of race is shaping up to be a major cultural battle ahead of next year's midterm elections.

Each episode of the new Amazon series Solos features a character struggling in isolation. Actress Constance Wu talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her 22-minute monologue.

Michael Dobbs writes of a time when a bipartisan group in Congress could command respect as investigators, and when even leaders of the president's party were prepared to acknowledge his wrongdoing.

Leah Johnson never saw herself in the novels she grew up with, so she wrote her own. Her debut is about the joy and frustration of growing up Black and queer in a place where that's not the norm.

In 2010, author Menachem Kaiser embarked on a quest to reclaim a building in Poland owned by his grandfather — among the only members of an extended family killed in the Holocaust.

The country has beat back the winter surge, and experts credit Americans' improved compliance with precautions like mask-wearing. But we could we still face a resurgence if we let up.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Semler about her new album. On Preacher's Kid, Semler reckons with her faith and queerness.

Domestic tourism has been strong in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, but sites in more impoverished, insecure areas tend to be visited less. A few Iraqi tourism companies are trying to change that.