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Russell Banks' latest is an uneven effort to excavate and redeem the dregs of modern society. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the novel — about porn addiction and sexual predators — is compelling in a low-grade, nightmarish sort of way.

Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun, unpacks why it can be so difficult for adults to have fun, and how people can find ways to incorporate fun into their life.

Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.

Employees in the government agency that deals with unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border say an order has been given not to release those children to their relatives here in the U.S.

While 65 more people have died due to complications from the virus, the positivity rate remained below 5% for the third consecutive day.

An additional 1,000 troops will be heading to Kabul to assist in evacuation efforts. This will boost the overall expected numbers to some 6,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

An orchestra performs the world premiere of a piece by the late Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White, 23 years after he composed it.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) about national paid family leave and why she thinks it should be included in President Biden's economic spending package.

The Netflix drama series stars Keri Russell as a career American diplomat. The new season is full of unexpected developments — including a cliffhanger that our critic never saw coming.

Judge Christopher Lopez’s order acknowledges that Orlando Health is a qualified bidder and its $439 million offer is a qualified first bid for the medical centers in Brevard and Indian River counties.

Iraq's draft constitution is likely to go to voters in October, over the objections of Sunni negotiators. Shiites and Kurds want a federalized Iraq with a relatively weak central government. Sunnis want a strong federal government.

Access to water for the Crimean Peninsula was one of the issues that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Steve Cropper, the Booker T. & the MG guitarist, songwriter and producer who was instrumental in the rise of R&B powerhouse Stax Records, died in Nashville at 84.

With a $600 weekly temporary federal unemployment benefit scheduled to end Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced he is extending his executive order...

The U.S. didn't send high-level delegates to COP30, but states like California are sending representatives and having an impact on the world climate stage.

Emma Donoghue's captivating novel Room is narrated by a 5-year-old boy named Jack. The setting is an 11-by-11-foot room where he lives with his mother — and when the book begins, it is the only world he has ever known.

Hustler rappers like Gunn traffic in street tales that feel larger than life. That doesn't mean they're not "real."

In the first of two reports, NPR's Michael Skoler reports on the escalating ethnic violence in the central African nation of Burundi. The United Nations is worried that fighting between the minority Tutsis and majority Hutus could erupt into the sort of mass killing that gripped neighboring Rwanda two years ago. A weak coalition government has been unable to stop the violence, as the Tutsi-dominated army battles Hutu rebels. Many average Burundians are losing hope that their political leaders can find a way out of the conflict.

Southwest Airlines canceled 28% of its scheduled flights over the weekend, blaming the woes on air traffic control issues and weather.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Rev. William Barber II ahead of the Poor People's Campaign march. His book is White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.

Activists and relief workers can't help but respond to mounting disasters in Haiti, even though they are fatigued from the constant churn of relief efforts.

As new positive COVID-19 tests remained beneath a key reopening threshold agreed on by global health experts, deaths statewide have been 140 or more for the past four days.

The job market is booming and the economy is expanding. So why aren't wages keeping pace? That's the wage puzzle, and some economists and employers offer explanations they say help explain it.