Windsor-Smith is known for his work on Conan the Barbarian and lots of X-Men titles. Now, he's back with a passion project about a man subjected to ghastly secret government experiments.
The daredevil aviator in Maggie Shipstead's new novel was inspired by Amelia Earhart. Shipstead says she wants to investigate the difference between death and a disappearance like Earhart's.
NPR's Noel King talks to Anna Sale about her book: Let's Talk About Hard Things. Sale, host of WNYC's podcast Death, Sex and Money, unpacks the things we must confront at some point in our lives
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with author Lindsey Rowe Parker and illustrator Rebecca Burgess about their new children's book Wiggles, Stomps and Squeezes Calm My Jitters Down.
Mbue's novel was inspired in part by her own experiences growing up in Cameroon. Set in a fictional African village in the 1980s, it follows a group of villagers who take on an American oil company.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Jhumpa Lahiri about her unusual use of place in her new novel, Whereabouts, which she first wrote in Italian and translated herself into English.
Reporter Michael Moss says processed foods can be as alluring in some ways as cocaine or cigarettes. His new book explains how companies keep us snacking by appealing to nostalgia and brain chemistry.