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Singer Bob Dylan delivered a Nobel Prize lecture — a requirement for receiving the cash prize that goes along with the award. He did it, fittingly, by sending a a nearly 30 minute recording.

Now in Seoul, North Korean defectors recall life inside one of the world's most secretive regimes, talking of brainwashing, required military service — and the jolt of seeing the outside world.

Édouard Louis' autobiographical novel is the story of a young man coming of age in a downtrodden French village. Critic John Powers calls it a "bulletin from the enraged heart of Le Pen country."

In Lebanon, the LGBT community has made important strides in recent years. But activists say there's still much to be done to achieve equal rights. The first Beirut Pride week was earlier this month.

More than 20 people were killed Friday when gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery.

You can name your business whatever you want. But the government won't register it as a trademark if it thinks it's offensive. It gets weird when you try to decide what is too offensive to trademark.

Nearly five years ago, the storm ravaged an amusement park in Seaside Heights, N.J., and plunged its old Jet Star coaster into the surf. Now, people can strap into its twisty, neon green Hydrus ride.

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews a movie that could only come out in the summer — Baywatch, starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Emily Dreyfuss, a reporter for Wired, who explains how sharing information about a terrorist attack on social media helps terrorists spread their message.

Denis Johnson was best known for his 1992 short story collection Jesus' Son. He won the 2007 National Book Award for the novel, Tree of Smoke. Johnson died Thursday at age 67.