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Melissa Sweet's colorful, kid-friendly biography includes letters, family photos, illustrations, manuscripts and more from the man behind Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan.

Colonel Mustard, in the ballroom, with the ... Gouda? You may not expect a wheel of cheese to be at the center of a devious plot, but Michael Paterniti's The Telling Room manages to do just that.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Afghanistan to show support for President Hamid Karzai, whose popularity has slumped in the face of a resurgent Taliban. Susan Stamberg talks with journalist Ahmed Rashid about the current state of affairs in Afghanistan.

South African freedom fighter Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada spent decades in jail with Nelson Mandela. His best friend later in life was one of his prison guards.

Journalist Graham Holliday moved to Vietnam in the '90s and immersed himself in the culture through food. That meant getting "a little bit" poisoned, finding the best Bún chả — and meeting his wife.

Saveur magazine Editor-in-Chief Stacy Adimando considers the start of a meal as "the best moment," and her cookbook, Piatti, celebrates Italian antipasti with plates that are rustic and seasonal.

Paul Stanley, lead singer of KISS, looks back on the heavy metal band's legacy and talks about retiring from touring at the end of 2019.

Blizzard President Mike Ybarra joins us to discuss the future of the company after a sex abuse scandal tarnished the company's once-gleaming reputation.

In the latest Politically Speaking, NPR Correspondent Scott Horsley compares the campaigning styles of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry.

"It's like you feel a presence in the photograph," says Philip Bermingham. The striking image he captured became the U.S. Postal Service's reference for the new stamp.

The drop comes now that fuel supplies have mostly recovered from record flooding in South Florida.

NPR member station reporters across the U.S. asked people how they are thinking about their country on its semiquincentennial.

The president's decision came hours after floating the possibility that he would issue quarantines for the hard-hit states. The CDC later advised residents against non-essential travel for 14 days.

Nine artists including T-Pain, Demi Lovato and Charlie Puth have granted Google permission to use their singing voices for the new tool, Dream Track.

There was a debate this week! But don't worry, we have questions about other things as well. For instance, have you been following the latest penguin news?

NPR's Juana Summers talks with singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams about her new memoir Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to add new regulations to additional tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, pipe tobacco and...

Gaming giants Nintendo and Ubisoft each released new takes on old series this week in Another Code: Recollection and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. We review what makes each worth exploring.

The veteran reporter became one of Hollywood's top journalists as founder of the entertainment trade website Deadline.com. She was the most-feared columnist in show business.

Developer Maximillian Vollmer of JDMAX Developments in Tampa recently purchased Sarasota’s first Black hotel, built in 1926. Now he wants to tear it down and build new townhomes. Sarasota’s Historic Preservation Board denied the request for demolition. The developer has appealed the decision.

On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's murder, Steve Inskeep has a remembrance from Lennon's appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971. The late Beatle was shot and killed outside his New York apartment on December 8, 1980.

Flaco, the owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo, remains free. NPR's Scott Simon marvels at how successfuly Flaco has adapted to the wilds of New York City.

We couldn't fit everything into Thursday's story about the legacy of Comin Out Hard, so here are some extras, including Eightball on touring in a rental car, MJG on Eazy-E and Yo Gotti on mentorship in the Memphis rap scene.

The Mexican city of Mazatlán is the first place the total solar eclipse will be visible as it emerges over the Pacific Ocean today, and the weather here is perfect.

We look at the Equality Caucus in the US Congress, which aims to increase representation in elected offices and pass laws protecting the LGBTQ community. (Story first aired on ATC on June 21.)