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The debut novel centers on K., a young Iranian-American boy living in Los Angeles.

Food writer Sam Sifton says the resurgence of family meals is one of the "precious few good things" to come of the pandemic. He says his family is eating a lot of tinned fish and cabbage these days.

CU Coventry's assembly-line approach makes college cheaper, faster and less intimidating for students, without the kinds of add-ons that push up prices.

Egypt now has the highest number of illegal migrants to Europe, lured by smugglers who charge a big fee for a risky voyage by sea. We interview families who had a loved one on the shipwrecked Adriana.

The current rap capital thrives on a thrilling contradiction: Its best music is at once hyperlocal and globally accessible, true to its roots but built for scale.

The International Space Station conducted a spacewalk this week to mark 15 years in space. Three people who've walked in space share their miraculous — and miserable — experiences.

Expectations were high, but for Rio's poorest, the games are coming up short. "Who is enjoying the games?" asks one man. "Not the poor. It's only for the tourists." But even tourists are staying away.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former FBI Director James Comey about his new thriller Central Park West.

In Sonia Sotomayor's new memoir, My Beloved World, the associate Supreme Court justice opens up about her childhood in the Bronx. NPR's Nina Totenberg calls it a moving and unexpectedly personal look at the court's first Hispanic justice.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with now-retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley about the U.S. military's departure from Afghanistan.

The status of the speakership has been declining for years. McCarthy's ouster is an extreme example in a sequence of events that have made the speaker more vulnerable — and thus weaker.

Fogelman says he was genuinely surprised to learn that his NBC family drama has a reputation for making audiences teary. "It was not the intent, nor something I expected," he says.

Kemmerer, Wyo., is on the front line of America's energy transition, with its coal plant slated to close and a nuclear plant in the works. But some think the rush to quit fossil fuels is impractical.

The secrecy that shrouded Princess Kate's cancer diagnosis is something that any new cancer patient can understand. It's daunting to decide when to share, whom to tell and how much to say.

Sirens sounded across Israel overnight as Israeli officials urged residents to take shelter. The attack follows a vow of retaliation from Iran after an earlier strike on an Iranian consulate in Syria.

Leonard Riggio transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.

The NPR Music team rounds up the best new music this week, including Laurie Anderson and the Florida rapper Doechii.

In the Barbershop, NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Washington Post's Kevin Blackistone, The Nation's Dave Zirin, and USA Today's Christine Brennan about the biggest stories in sports in 2018.

The Ohio governor says there are "two paths" for the Republican Party — one of "darkness" and the one that he's on. That may resonate more with general election voters than primary voters, though.

The federal government is currently doing more than ten times the enforcement of existing child labor law compared to Florida, even though Florida law is currently more strict than the federal government. Now, some lawmakers want to weaken Florida child labor law.

Whether or not artificial intelligence is coming for your job, it's almost certain to change it. Here's how Americans are dealing with AI at work.

Listener Laurie Pavlos tried re-creating her great-grandmother's "jumble" cookie recipe — transcribed by her great-grandfather in 1914 — with little success. So she turned to the Lost Recipe project, and got some help re-creating the molasses-rich cookie from cookbook author Nancy Baggett.

Florida’s House and Senate are poised to pass the strongest consumer protections in state history for a problem-plagued home loan program touted to help homeowners pay for energy efficiency projects.

Power of the Dream takes viewers behind the scenes to show how WNBA players took a stand during racial justice protests in 2020, helped elect a senator and negotiated historic pay raises.

Inductees this year also included A Tribe Called Quest and Dave Matthews Band, and posthumous recognition for Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Norman Whitfield and Big Mama Thornton.