Chloe Veltman is a correspondent on NPR's Culture Desk. From her base in San Francisco where she has lived for more than 20 years, Veltman covers a wide array of cultural news and trends, with a ...

Before Chloe Zhao and Kore-eda Hirokazu sat down for their Tokyo International Film Festival conversation, they had each been crying over the other’s work. Kore-eda watched Zhao’s “Hamnet” in a small ...

That morning of their conversation, Zhao had risen at 4 a.m., jet-lagged, to watch Kore-eda’s 1998 masterpiece “After Life.” She was crying for an hour while her makeup team worked on her before the ...

A woman is upset after access to IVF funding was temporarily denied because her boyfriend uses prescription cannabis to treat Tourette's. Chloe Newton-Gould and Josh Samain met when they were 15 and ...