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The extent of the initial damage from Hurricane Harvey was becoming visible Saturday morning in Texas.

Turks on the Istanbul street where the three suspected Ataturk Airport attackers lived wonder what threats surround them. The government faces pressure to fight ISIS; people fear the end of tourism.

As Ukraine claims a strategic victory in a long, grinding counteroffensive, its troops say they need more long-range weapons to fight increasingly entrenched Russian troops.

Barbara Gordon gets a perky makeover in the new Batgirl Vol. 1. Critic Etelka Lehoczky says the series is a clever exploration of identity in the digital age, but suffers from occasional cluelessness.

Fortune India editor-at-large Hindol Sengupta's new book chronicles India's lurching progress away from a state-controlled economy to a more open system that encourages business and investment.

Powell is known for his work on John Lewis' autobiography March -- but his new graphic novel goes in a different direction, digging into family secrets and supernatural horrors in an Ozarks commune.

President-elect Obama has held his second news conference in as many days, naming Peter Orzag as his nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget. Obama pledged that his team would scrutinize the budget for excesses even as they added programs to stimulate the economy.

The national board of SAG-AFTRA voted to strike and is walking picket lines. There are now two simultaneous strikes in Hollywood, writers have been on strike since May.

Thousands of people lined up at the John F. Kennedy library in Boston to bid farewell to Sen. Edward Kennedy. The crowd included people who had never met Kennedy and dignitaries who knew him well.

The Federal Reserve kept its target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge on overnight loans, unchanged at 2 percent. It said, however, that strains in financial markets had "increased significantly."

Robert Siegel says President Barack Obama's speech was one crafted for hard times. Melissa Block says people in the crowd seemed very interested in listening to what Obama had to say, and they thought the tone of his speech was appropriate.

Olivier Schrauwen's new graphic novel is cold and rejecting, giddy and uncontrolled, all at the same time. It's semi-autobiographical and loosely sci-fi, set in an unsettlingly minimalist future.

The icon was honored by musicians and dignitaries. Here is a visual testimony of the event.

Maureen McLane's experimental essay collection, My Poets, blends her academic and intellectual experiences with the poetry that has inspired her. The NYU professor tells her story through a series of reflections on poets from Chaucer to William Carlos Williams.

A special legislative session begins in Georgia to redraw the state's political maps after a federal judge ruled that the current district lines illegally dilute the power of Black voters.

It's been a long and winding road for the '57 Chevy station wagon at the heart of Earl Swift's new book Auto Biography. Swift traces the car through 13 owners and a dramatic restoration attempt.

Basma Abdel Aziz's new novel is set in an unspecified Middle Eastern city, where an endless line snakes back from the mysterious Gate where citizens await pronouncements from a sinister government.

Alaya Dawn Johnson's new young-adult novel, The Summer Prince, follows three friends in a far-future Brazilian city as they deal with questions of art, love and technology. Reviewer Petra Mayer says Johnson "walks the line between literary lyricism and good old-fashioned science fiction storytelling."

Hundreds of people gathered in Washington, D.C., to show support for the victims of the Hamas attacks.

NPR's A Martinez talks to human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the White House trying to walk a fine diplomatic line in the Middle East.

Venezuela's blackout continued into its fifth day, heightening frustration for people already living with food and medicine shortages. Hospitals are struggling and communication networks are patchy.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will leave Congress at the end of the month. For more than a decade he's represented people in the area of Bakersfield, Calif.

It's his first work in seven years, with a protagonist he says has allowed him to process his own life.

Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard's latest book, Confronting the Classics, takes a gleefully contrarian approach to marble-bust greats like Homer and Thucydides. Reviewer Annalisa Quinn says the work "expertly straddles the line between scholarly and accessible."

In Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies, dead people inhabit new bodies and immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be. Theroux tells NPR's Scott Simon, "I think that everyone who loves books has experienced the feeling of being taken over by another mind."