Ira Glass reads a favorite passage from the writing of the recently deceased poet Donald Hall.

A guy goes to a funeral for someone he doesn’t know at all, and has to piece together everything about him.

There’s a lawsuit going on between Harvard and some Asian American students who say the admissions process discriminates against them.

A group of kids is told that “education is the door to their futures.” But these kids are in jail, facing adult sentences. Why learn algebra when you’re facing 25 years? Eli Hager reports.

In Richard Brautigan's novel "The Abortion," he imagines a library where regular people can come and drop off their own unpublished books. Nothing is turned away.

A private basketball coach teaches a young student some things his parents don't agree with. David Kestenbaum has the story.