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Emerging as a major pop star in 2019, Eilish is emblematic of her moment: a rebel who is also a popular kid, a loud cultural presence emanating from a carefully maintained private place.

If you could watch it at home in 2020, it's here — four NPR critics give their picks for the best in streaming or broadcast TV in a year when current events turned the industry upside down.

RZA got his first set of turntables when he was 11. He went on to co-found Wu-Tang Clan, the platinum-selling group whose name was inspired by martial arts movies. Originally broadcast in 2005.

NPR's wide-ranging interview with Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine covers Hillary Clinton's transparency, the nature of Donald Trump's support, Kaine's experience as a missionary in Honduras and his faith.

We'll call it in the air: 2015 is going to end up being a great year for music. Here are 25 albums we fell in love with over the year's first six months.

In 2012, the Oscar-winning actor talked about shifting accents for various roles, including her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady: "It's work, but it's not a struggle; it's fun."

Special coverage of Hillary Clinton's concession speech, with NPR hosts and reporters. Clinton took the stage Wednesday to make her first public statements after losing the presidency to Donald Trump.

MacArthur fellow McLorin Salvant sings jazz standards as well as forgotten early songs. "In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows," she told Terry Gross in this 2015 interview.

Alaya Dawn Johnson's new young adult novel, The Summer Prince, is set in post-apocalyptic Brazil, in a giant pyramid-shaped city ruled by queens with a combination of technology and ancient, bloody sacrifice.

Some of the best rock music of 2017 was made by women reckoning with a fundamental destructive truth of the genre: that it promises freedom to young female listeners but withholds actual liberation.