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Last month, poet Kwame Alexander asked you to write a poem inspired by two paintings of women looking out of a window. Many of you found a way to express life during the coronavirus pandemic.

Nightmare Alley director Guillermo del Toro says his future was set the first time he saw Frankenstein. Science writer Florence Williams examines the scientific reason why breaking up feels so rotten.

As the coronavirus forces people to keep their distance, a humanities program in Oregon brings residents together in an old-fashioned way.

The SXSW Film Festival joins other canceled or postponed film fests looking for alternate ways to screen their movies.

Thanks to supply chain delays, car shoppers are finding fewer choices and higher prices. But low supply and high demand is paying off handsomely for auto makers and dealers.

Jason Epstein, a towering figure in the New York City's intellectual scene who co-founded "The New York Review of Books" as well as the Library of America series, died this week at 93.

The winter Olympic Games kick off in China with messages of unity despite realities of division on the ground, while Tom Brady retires and a former coach sues the NFL for racial discrimination.

Writing letters to strangers in almost all 50 states became an outlet to process anxieties about the pandemic. And a reminder of all the ways we are connected.

Wordle is hardly the first puzzle to take the nation by storm. Scott Simon speaks with A.J. Jacobs, journalist and author, about his new book on the power of puzzles.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Raenell Dawn, co-founder of the Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies, about the pros and cons of having a birthday on Feb. 29.