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Director Edgar Wright rejects computer-generated unreality and instead focuses on breathtaking driving in his new heist thriller. Critic David Edelstein says the result is terrifically entertaining.

From Thomas Jefferson's cut-up Bible to the country's first printed hymnal, the Smithsonian's Religion in Early America exhibit wants to engage Americans with the role of religion in its first days.

Arthur Werner Sr., 89, died over the weekend. But long before his death, the Pennsylvania man made plans to be buried in the sidecar of his 1990 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail.

Cardinal Pell, a key adviser to Pope Francis, has been ordered to appear in a Melbourne court next month. Steve Inskeep talks to John Allen, editor of Crux, which focuses on the Catholic Church.

West Virginia has the highest drug overdose death rate in the country. New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot interviewed addicts, their families and health professionals to understand why.

The jazz saxophonist and composer's new album is a dense work that musically maps the sport of boxing.

The Chesapeake Bay cleanup depends heavily on farmers taking steps to keep runoff from entering the bay. But the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to help them do it has been controversial. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to one Maryland farmer who changed his mind about the EPA efforts to clean up the bay.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is trying to shut down nongovernmental organizations by turning Hungarian public opinion against them. It's the latest in a series of actions in recent months aimed at creating what Orban calls an "illiberal state."

Two Chinese labor activists are missing, and presumed to be detained by police. The two were investigating alleged labor abuses at a factory that makes shoes for Ivanka Trump's brands.

Vagabon captures what makes relationships with other people so scary and easily torn in a video shot on 35mm film.