Baking star Christina Tosi on the soundtrack behind her cookie empire

How Taylor Swift got TV writer Michael Schur out of a rut

Introducing 'Pacific Standard Time'

Why Andrew Ahn remade the first gay film he ever saw

Trump fired him, but Preet Bharara is still defending the country he loves

How actress Pepi Sonuga keeps the faith, even when Hollywood says 'We don't need you'

Drag queen and activist Peppermint finds joy even when there’s ‘no tears left to cry’

How music taught culture critic Sam Sanders to be grateful for his grief

From the South Bronx to Sesame Street: How Sonia Manzano made Maria a Latina icon

From Mozart to Drake: The music that moves Misty Copeland

Riding waves and weathering life’s storms with surfer-turned-writer Jamie Brisick

Special Episode: The songs that shaped our listeners’ lives (and Sophie’s, too)

How I Met Your Mother gave Josh Radnor 'identity vertigo.' Ayahuasca set him straight.

How TV’s favorite couples therapist, Dr. Orna Guralnik, found her interior life through music

'Everyone’s seen my tits': Keeley Hazell on reclaiming the narrative in her new memoir

Amanda Knox survived a living nightmare. Flight of the Conchords helped.

ENCORE: How Robert Reich learned to fight bullies

Mary Louise Kelly: NPR host, war reporter, mother … spy novelist?

Biographer of geniuses Walter Isaacson on the songs and city that made him

Best-selling author Jason Reynolds writes the YA books he never had