Audio will be available later today. purchase Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? I was a girl once, but not any more. That's the first sentence of Edna O'Brien's new novel. It goes on: I smell. Blood dried and crusted all over me…
Art Blakey was born 100 years ago today on October 11, 1919 and America's homegrown music — jazz — might not sound quite like it does today if it weren't for the influence of the late drummer. 'I would call Art Blakey's music the…
Gun control has emerged as a key issue in next month's off-off-year elections in Virginia, a state that is seen as a bellwether of what could be to come in national elections in 2020. Republicans currently hold a razor-thin majority in both houses…
