Fresh Air

Harjo was recently named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. His TV show Reservation Dogs focused on group of teenagers living on a Native reservation in rural Oklahoma. Originally broadcast Sept. 19, 2022.

Petty's classic album is being rereleased as Long After Dark Deluxe, including seven previously unreleased songs. Petty, who died in 2017, spoke to Fresh Air in 2006 about his influences.

Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán has written an intense novel about the kind of deep down rot that lingers, despite the most vigorous scrubbing.

As IG, Glenn Fine oversaw investigations of the mishandling of documents in the Oklahoma bombing case, the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo and corruption in the Navy. His book is Watchdogs.

Historian Mary Ziegler talks about the legal battles shaping reproductive rights across the U.S. — including the scope of abortion access and the fate of invitro-fertilization.

Michel Houellebecq is a controversial literary superstar. His new book, Annihilation, centers on a middle-aged Paris bureaucrat in a sexless marriage. It's slow to start, but still holds surprises.

Mosab Abu Toha was able to escape Gaza, along with his wife and three young children. The award-winning poet talks about parenting in war and the devastation of leaving his family and friends behind.

Betsy Lerner's debut novel weaves together the ordinary and the erratic to tell the story of a middle-class Jewish family whose suburban life is turned upside down by mental illness.

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. Now, her daughter Riley Keough, has finished and published From Here to the Great Unknown.

This expertly cast film captures the rehearsals and the logistics that lead up to opening night. Saturday Night is a nonstop joy ride — and a testament to the adage that the show must go on.

Rose, who died Sept. 30, was one of MLB's most accomplished players — and one of the most controversial. Rose was banned from the league in 1989 for betting on baseball. Originally broadcast in 2004.

Houston, who died Oct. 7, started out on the gospel circuit as a child, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and later guided her daughter, Whitney, to superstardom. Originally broadcast in 1998.