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Jones grew up black, gay and isolated in Texas. He chronicles his wobbly path to self-affirmation in the raw and eloquent new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives.

It's never, ever too late. Just ask the guy given 30 days to live ... 30 years ago. Or the lifelong film buff who found a present and future in the films of the past. Or the woman who's changing the face and attitudes toward mental illness. Or the woman behind one of the biggest hits of the 1980s who keeps finding new ways to reinvent herself.

The storm prompted the National Hurricane Center to issue warnings for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the British Virgin Islands.

Death may be inescapable, but we do our best to avoid thinking about it. Psychologist Sheldon Solomon says we're not very successful though. This week on Hidden Brain, we confront how death anxiety courses through our actions, even when we don't realize it.

South Korea's government and health officials are worried about teens addicted to gaming and their smartphones in the world's most connected society.

Whitehead's new novel is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. "If there's one place like this, there are many," he says.

The decision comes more than a year after the Trump administration announced plans to include on forms for the national head count the question, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"

"I felt like everything that had mattered to me was gone," Amber Scorah says of her decision to leave the Jehovah's Witness community she grew up in. Her new memoir is Leaving the Witness.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with comedian Baron Vaughn, one of the creator's of Comedy Central's The New Negroes. A show that showcases black comedians and music artists in a space that's all their own.

For the first time, the NBA Finals will be played in Canada. The Toronto Raptors host the Golden State Warriors on Thursday. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Toronto Star sports columnist Bruce Arthur.