Terry Gross

As a war correspondent for The New York Times, Newsweek and the Philadelphia Inquirer, Rod Nordland ...

When cognitive neuroscientist Charan Ranganath meets someone for the first time, he's often asked, "...

In Maestro, his Oscar-nominated biopic about Leonard Bernstein, director and star Cooper worked with...

From relentless campaigning to snubs and speeches, the Academy Awards have often reflected a cultura...

Brown won Emmys for his roles in The People v. O.J. Simpson and This is Us. Now he's nominated for t...

Domingo is nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Bayard Rustin, an activist who was forced int...

When Mark Daley and his husband, Jason, became foster parents to two brothers, they fell in love wit...

Nolan's film, which is nominated for 13 Academy Awards, tells the story of Robert Oppenheimer, the m...

Poor Things actor Emma Stone was 7 years old when she experienced her first panic attack: "I was at ...

Pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead came of age in a time of enormous change and uncertainty. In...

When Annie Liontas was 35, they got into a bike accident while riding without a helmet. They hadn't ...

When Sterling K. Brown first came to Hollywood in the early 2000s, casting directors told him he nee...

As a child, actor Bradley Cooper was so fascinated by music conductors that he asked for a baton as ...

When she was starring in Funny Girl on Broadway, Streisand says she'd alter the music slightly each ...

Poet and memoirist Christian Wiman was 39 when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Now 57, ...

Former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney voted for Donald Trump twice, in 2016 and 2020, but she vow...

After 22 years of interviews, longtime Fresh Air contributor and fill-in host Dave Davies is cutting...

In her book, Prequel, Maddow describes ultra-right plots to overthrow the government in the days lea...

Humans have been spotting — and remarking on — mysterious forms in the sky since the beginning of re...

Elliot Ackerman served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, during which time, he says, he witnessed ...

Throughout her career, Barbra Streisand's mother would send her bad reviews of her performances. The...

The late spy novelist is the subject of a new documentary by Errol Morris, The Pigeon Tunnel. Le Car...

German filmmaker Werner Herzog's earliest memory is of war. He was 2 and a half in April 1945, and h...

Though Iranian American filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz grew up in New York and New Jersey, she frequentl...

Poet Safiya Sinclair grew up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in a devout Rastafari family. Her father, a re...

Through evolution, animals have developed an array of defenses to help protect against predators. Po...

Red Carpet author Erich Schwartzel says that film studios increasingly need Chinese audiences to bre...

Allison Jones, the casting director for Barbie, was a child when the iconic doll first came out, but...

Hua Hsu won the Pulitzer Prize for Stay True, his memoir about identity, musical obsessions and the ...

Zadie Smith says she would rather write a 400-page novel than sit and think about death for five min...