Hosted by Ayesha Rascoe, "The Sunday Story" is NPR's weekly news and culture magazine exploring one topic in depth through ...

Stories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...

Sarah Lewis is a Melbourne-based freelance writer for Collider who loves Sci-Fi, disaster movies and anything with Jon Bernthal. When not whittling down her to-watch list (or more likely, adding to it ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

RENTON, Wash. — Late on a Saturday afternoon last month, a gaggle of children, ages 1 to 5, trickled onto a patio next to a bar, sat in tiny plastic chairs and waited for a host who was about to ...

Our lives are filled with storytelling, from the stories we tell our friends over dinner, to the ones we tell at eulogies, during toasts, at job interviews and on dates. "[Stories] make us laugh and ...

The Philadelphia Story was released 80 years ago this month. Gregory Wakeman explores how the comedy deals with sensitive modern issues through the prism of quips, barbs – and sexual tension. It ...

Our daily Long Story is a deep dive into a specific contemporary issue, brought to you from the front lines with original reportage by our best journalists. Each story is carefully written, edited, ...