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Adam Gopnik says the Nobel Prize winner isn't merely a poet: She's "a necessary writer, as necessary as toast," adept at delivering "a small truth articulated as a sharp ironic point" — and "an emotion given a shape neither all too familiar nor all too abstract."

The United Nations kicked off a conference on the status of a 50-year treaty on nuclear nonproliferation — as crises fester in the Middle East, the Korean peninsula and Ukraine.

Traffic jams in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, are legendary. Known as 'go-slows', traffic can be stalled for hours — prime opportunities for hawkers as well as thieves.

Santa Fe Indian Market marked its 100th anniversary. It began as a way of preserving what white curators thought of as traditional, but artists say the market today is a place of innovation.

Recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado after voters approved it last November. But there are still no rules on where or how to buy it. That's just one of the many issues facing a task force in the state.

In 1912, the 47 residents of Malaga Island were forcibly removed from their small, interracial community. Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding fictionalizes the story in a stunning new historical novel.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with music teacher-in-training Ari Silberman about his debut Jazz album, Beneath the Canopy.

Business disagreements between Adobe and Pantone have left creators in the dark about the future of color use in digital art.

The tiny town of Semur-en-Auxois in Burgundy has the honor of hosting the Tour de France for the first time ever this year, and it has been sprucing up for the occasion for months.

County bats is often tricky. Researchers use volunteers and innovative technology to monitor bat populations. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on Aug. 19, 2023.)