'Roman Stories' is Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's latest collection
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to author Jhumpa Lahiri, who turns Rome into a central character in her new story collection.
Books
New England fruit farmers begin to reimagine crops as climate shifts
New England's apple harvest has been a bust and the reason goes back to an early spring frost and the implications of climate change.
'Blackouts' is an ingenious deathbed conversation between two friends
More than a decade after his debut, We the Animals, Justin Torres returns with a novel that centers on a deathbed conversation between two friends about the distortions and erasures of queer history.
'Mr. Texas' author Lawrence Wright takes on the colorful world of Lone Star politics
"I love the way that Texans talk," Wright says. His novel centers on a naïve rancher who lucks into a seat in the state legislature, where he meets lobbyists, veteran politicians and power brokers.
What is certain in life? Death, taxes — and a new book by John Grisham
The Firm was the book that turned John Grisham into a writing superstar. Now three decades later, he's returned to the characters that made him, with his follow up book The Exchange.
New children's book gets kids to grasp the vastness of the universe
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Noelia González the author of the children's book Glow, A Family Guide to the Night Sky and the host of NASA's Spanish language podcast Universo Curioso de la NASA.
Elena Kostyuchenko's 'I Love Russia' is a memoir about being a journalist in the country
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to journalist Elena Kostyuchenko about her memoir, "I Love Russia."
Raul Palma on his debut novel 'A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens'
NPR's Scott Simon Speaks with Raul Palma about his debut novel, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens."
Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück dies at 80
The winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003-2004 was 80 years old.
In 'Blackouts,' one writer brings America's hidden queer history to the forefront
In Blackouts, Justin Torres plays with fact and fiction, and calls into question whose story gets told.