“Che bella bambina, what a pretty little girl,” they all said. And inevitably, they added, “Che peccato! What a shame!” There was such sorrow in their voices, such an anguished look on their faces… I ...

Nadina LaSpina, who contracted polio as a baby, talked about her book, [Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride], on growing up with a disability and becoming a ...

For this program, we bring back long-time disability activist, Nadina LaSpina, to talk more about her memoir, Such a Pretty Girl: a Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride. LaSpina has ...

The New Yorker, June 24, 1939 P. 17. Tells about Barbs and Sylvia, two young married woman who leave their babies with a girl, and hitch hike to New York. When they get there, Barbs hasn't enough ...

NPR's Susan Davis speaks with actor Lola Tung and co-showrunner Jenny Han about their new Prime Video series, "The Summer I Turned Pretty," about a pivotal summer in the life of one teenager.

At 14, I am startlingly thin. My once “pretty face” is now gaunt and tired looking. It’s no wonder no one recognizes or remembers me. I am a shadow of my former self.

When an 11-year-old boy sneaked his first kiss under a British railway bridge in 1965, he most likely never expected it to be front-page news 40 years later. But then he did choose British Prime ...

This was a radical statement, given the surrounds, though undermined somewhat by an inane voice-over presenter who a few seconds earlier had described Nash as "such a pretty girl".