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In her memoir, A Fighting Chance, Warren reveals a childhood brush with bankruptcy and reflects on hard-won political lessons.

Gourmet magazine's editor in chief and food critic Ruth Reichl grew up in a house where mold-covered pudding was considered an adequate dessert. But Reichl doesn't begrudge her mother. In a new book, she thanks her.

The violence in Los Angeles was explosive in 2002 when crisis intervention expert Jorja Leap ventured into the city's most gang-saturated territories. The stories of the gang members she met are part of her new book, Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption.

There's so much more to St. Patrick's Day food than Irish soda bread and corned beef and cabbage. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson shares some delectable recipes for a holiday feast you'll want to raise a glass to.

Moby-Dick is a difficult book to read. But the author of a new book about the Melville classic says it's worth it to make the effort.

One thing that's nice about having pets, they give you unconditional love. Poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander is asking you to share a poem in the voice of your pet.

Gordon Sondland, a Trump donor and Trump's ambassador to the European Union, was scheduled to be deposed by Congress for his role in the widening Ukraine scandal involving the president.

Shawn Levy's brick-sized new biography of screen legend Robert De Niro was produced without cooperation from the actor — but Levy says that just forced him to do better research.

Awards season has offered NPR's Scott Simon the opportunity to reflect on the number of British actors playing Americans in films and television shows, and wonder where the American actors are.

In Tom Wolfe's first book of nonfiction in 16 years, he argues that the development of speech, not evolution, has made humans what we are today — evolution, he says, applies only to animals.

Producer and engineer Eddie Kramer brings continuity and freshness to Hendrix's posthumous canon with a new album.

African-American philosopher Cornel West's new book laments the decline of "prophetic" black leadership, lifting up examples of people who were willing to risk their lives in the service of the truth.

The man protesters in Iran are supporting, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is a former prime minister and foreign minister. He is an architect by training and a painter. Joe Klein of Time magazine and former Iranian Deputy Prime Minister Mohsen Sazegara offer their insight on Mousavi.

The answer dates back to the 19th century and involves buggies, the Sabbath and farming.

An estimated 300,000 people were held in solitary confinement in the U.S. at the height of the pandemic. Advocates are pushing to limit the practice, citing lasting harm to prisoners' health.

Dogs are attacking and killing deer in Southern Minnesota. Attacks are taking place at Myre -- Big Island State Park, which is in Albert Lea, about 15 miles north of Iowa Border. In the past three weeks 25 deer have been killed. Hardened snow packs are making it easy for dogs to chase the deer; a deer can usually outrun a dog in normal conditions. Noah Adams speaks with Jeanine Vorland, an area wildlife manager for the Owatonna region of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, about the problem.

Raising a child with autism can test families financially and emotionally. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with parents of children with autism, and a young woman who was diagnosed later in life.

These five outstanding novels take us to unfamiliar eras and exotic locales — ancient Israel, Elizabethan England, 1920s Paris — while confirming our common humanity.

4-minute recording captures bizarre circumstances for the resident explaining that a pilot parachuted into his backyard, the pilot who doesn't know what became of his jet, and a puzzled dispatcher.

'Hi', a new U.S.-government funded magazine which recently hit newsstands in the Arab world, hopes to improve the view of the United States in the Middle East. But some Arab consumers says the publication misses the mark. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

The South Carolina Republican has been outspoken in his criticism of President Obama's administration lately, particularly his opposition to Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense. But this may have to do more with a possible primary challenge than the nomination itself.

Republicans' plans to overhaul the federal health law aren't expected to take effect immediately, so consumers can still sign up for 2017 coverage — and should, if they need insurance.

Kuwait's ruling emir died on Saturday after a three-year, low-key reign focused on trying to resolve the tiny, oil-rich nation's internal political disputes. Authorities gave no cause of death.

The sequel to 1999's album of vintage country duets, In Spite Of Ourselves, will be out Sept. 30. Hear Prine sing the opening song, "Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out," with Iris DeMent.

On a ship that saves lives at sea, Ruth Sherlock speaks with Syrian migrants about the risks they took escaping their country and their hopes for a new life in Europe.