Voice memos from the path of Typhoon Mawar
As Typhoon Mawar thrashes Guam with 140-mile-per-hour winds and heavy rain, two people on the island share eyewitness accounts of what they're seeing.
Books
One complaint led a Florida school to restrict access to Amanda Gorman's famous poem
One week after a parent complained, Gorman's The Hill We Climb was moved. The NAACP chapter in Miami says it wants "to ensure that it takes more than one form to remove our history and heritage."
Kenneth Anger, gay film pioneer and unreliable Hollywood chronicler, dies at 96
Kenneth Anger was a queer underground filmmaker whose bestselling book, Hollywood Babylon, purported to reveal the seamy side of a golden era.
South Korean beauty culture reveals a grim future in 'Flawless'
Brittany Luse, of the NPR podcast It's Been a Minute, talks to NPR's Elise Hu, who writes about Korean beauty standards in the book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital.
Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel win International Booker Prize for 'Time Shelter'
This win is a first for a Bulgarian novel — the author and translator will split the prize money. Time Shelter imagines a clinic for Alzheimer's patients where each floor reproduces a past decade.
A Georgia school district's book bans may have caused a hostile environment, feds say
Forsyth County Schools didn't spell out its criteria to students, the Department of Education says, leaving the impression that diverse authors and characters were excluded.
Stacey Abrams follows her thriller 'While Justice Sleeps' with 'Rogue Justice'
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Georgia state legislator Stacey Abrams about her latest novel: Rogue Justice. She has a third Avery Keene novel in the works.
Luis Alberto Urrea pays tribute to WWII's forgotten volunteers — including his mother
The author's mother was a Red Cross volunteer assigned to Patton's 3rd Army — she was with the troops who helped liberate Buchenwald. Urrea's new woman-centered wartime novel is Good Night, Irene.
New book by Minnesota's attorney general reflects on breaking a cycle of injustice
NPR's Leila Fadel to talks Keith Ellison about his book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence. He recounts the prosecution of former officer Derek Shauvin in the death of George Floyd.
Hana Videen on her book 'The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English'
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with author and medieval studies scholar Hana Videen about her book, "The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English."