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We asked transgender educators around the country to share a selfie, and tell us what they wish others knew about them. Many say they play vital roles in creating safe spaces for the next generation.

Aspidistrafly traffics in a lush tranquility, attuned to the ever-changing movement of age and landscape.

25-year-old Max Moran is a former foster child and outspoken advocate for foster care reform in New York City. Weekend All Things Considered first met Max two years ago; he's now poised to graduate from Hunter College in New York with a Master's degree in social work.

Known for her honest and effortless live show, singer-songwriter Christina Courtin is as passionate about her music as she is about the honesty found within it. In a session from WXPN, she performs songs from her self-titled debut album.

The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle is best known for his searing songs about troubled souls: speed freaks, co-dependent couples, abusers and the abused. "Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise" displays his gifts as an interpreter, as well.

The Prairie Home Companion host is starring (a bit reluctantly) in a fictional film about his own show. Keillor talks about working with Robert Altman, Meryl Streep and other above-average Hollywood luminaries.

The veteran rapper takes on thorny issues throughout his new album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color.

Small towns glow with a strange magic in Stephen Millhauser's new story collection. Reviewer Alan Cheuse praises Millhauser's imaginative talents, comparing him to Gogol and Garcia Marquez.

There are many gifted jazz singers, and there's no shortage of accomplished acoustic bass players. But 23-year-old Esperanza Spalding's new album features both her soaring, flexible vocals and the low-end thump of her double bass.

Silenced by breast cancer at the height of her sparkling career, the great English singer Kathleen Ferrier's legacy lives on in a new 14-CD set and documentary.

Comic artist Ulli Lust's unique, surreal style proves a bad match for this adaptation of a historical novel about the children of Joseph Goebbels and their last days in Adolf Hitler's bunker.

What happened on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last Friday has sparked intense national debate. Reporter Jacqueline Keeler shares what she thinks is being lost in the conversation.

Though it feels like a mere sample of what's to come, the Memphis rapper's new EP presents her as a singular talent using her instrument as a megaphone for provocation and inspiration.

A new biography of David Foster Wallace traces the author's anxieties to childhood. Biographer D.T. Max says the accidents of Foster's life gave him the key to his writing.

Cross country skiing is a stellar way to get warm, stay in shape and enjoy the outdoors during northern Minnesota winters. Bill Scheela stopped by the…

Hurricane Katrina dealt a body blow to New Orleans' main industry, tourism. But now a group of curiosity seekers are trickling into the city to see and photograph the damage done by the storms.

On Dec. 26, 2004, the biggest tsunami in recent memory killed more than 250,000 people around the coast of the Indian Ocean. Two years after the tsunami, people displaced by the disaster are still living intents or makeshift homes. The Red Cross promised to build 50,000 homes; so far, there are only 8,000. Host Robert Siegel speaks with the United Nations' Miloon Kothari.

Despite the dismal state of much of New Orleans, Pastor Jay Adkins has returned to his parish, where he is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Jefferson Parish in Westwego, La. Adkins and others say churches are playing a vital role in helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Investigators in Atlanta will want to compare the voice of any suspect with that on the tape of the 911 call that warned of a bomb. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on how sound spectrography is used to match voices in the lab.

'Magnolia' lays bare the winsome sadness of Cantor's sweet voice