Voters across the country are heading to the polls today to cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm elections.

Author and painter Maira Kalman is out with a new book called Joy, exploring all the things that bring her fleeting happiness and why sorrow is a necessary counterpart to joy.

Sara Levine's darkly comic novel follows a woman whose babysitting duties take a bizarre turn after a dog dies at the park.

Journalist Gabe Bullard argues that embracing a little more friction in everyday life could make us happier and more connected.

This month's books we're noting, from authors including Daisy Johnson and Louise Kennedy, tell stories of star-crossed romance, hard-won redemption and high-stakes struggle.

Reporter Akbar Shahid Ahmed draws on more than 150 interviews to explore the secrecy, internal dissent and decisions that shaped U.S. policy.

The modern masters of vintage soul and R&B perform more than a half-dozen tracks that run together in a single, continuous groove.

In a small town in Ohio, farm animals and people start turning into monsters. But somehow they seem happier that way, in John Scalzi's novel "Monsters of Ohio." He talks to NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.