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Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty ImagesRoute 66 is celebrating 100 years of being the country's most famous highway. This icon of American culture passes through eight states — and has shown up for decades in movies, books, music and art.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks to Irish writer Louise Kennedy, whose new novel, Stations, captures the full-bodied tension of young love.
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At its heart, this novel about trauma is also a tale of triumph.
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The band has reunited for its first album in more than a decade, drawing on a renewed connection among its members.
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The novelist revisits his fictional Midwestern college in "The Brightness," exploring female friendships and sexual abuse on college campuses.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to Danielle Fishel, co-author of Book Meets World: The Definitive Inside Story of the Hit Sitcom Boy Meets World about her reflections on growing up on-screen.
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Mona Chalabi spent five years following Americans living paycheck to paycheck, as well as those earning top wages. Her new book, Ten Lives, explores why financial security can feel so elusive. -
August Lamm used to have 200,000 Instagram followers. These days, she carries a flashlight, waits for weather reports on the radio and requests that people contact her on her landline or by letter. -
M. John Harrison's slim novel is the first Booker Prize winner that's "emerged from the bona fide [sci-fi] world," according to the Booker Prize Foundation's chief executive.
