'Hotel Cuba' tells an immigrant's story of everyday courage
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Aaron Hamburger, author of Hotel Cuba, a novel is based on the real life immigration story of his grandparents.
Books
Author Dave Eggers channels a stray dog for his new book
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Dave Eggers about his new book, "The Eyes and the Impossible." The protagonist is a dog whose job is to serve as the eyes of the vast urban park where he resides.
'Paved Paradise' examines how parking has changed the American landscape
Author Henry Grabar says parking codes, parking lots and garages have shaped the landscape of cities and suburbs, and limited the creation of affordable housing.
Tom Hanks has starred in dozens of movies. Now he's written a novel too
For Tom Hanks, movies have always been transformative. Now, after acting in dozens of them, he's written a novel based on his experiences on movie sets. He talked to NPR's A Martinez.
'Wild Dances' puts consequences of a long-ago, faraway conflict at center
By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.
Advice from a recovering workaholic: break free
How to achieve that hard-to-hit goal of work/life balance? NPR's A Martinez asks Bryan Robinson, author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World.
Why the U.S. builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Henry Grabar about his book Paved Paradise. It makes the case that Americans' pursuit of abundant parking is upending our cities and our lives.
Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.
'Red Memory' aims to profile people shaped by China's Cultural Revolution
Tania Branigan, once China correspondent for the Guardian, makes the strongest English-language effort yet to reconstruct what it was like to live through, and then with, this part of Chinese history.
'The Last Honest Man' profiles the senator who exposed the CIA's crimes and cover-ups
Journalist James Risen tells the story of Sen. Frank Church, who exposed the dirty laundry of the CIA and the FBI nearly 50 years ago, and inspired congressional oversight of intelligence agencies.