Books

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Susan Page, the author of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power about Pelosi's legacy, following the congresswoman's decision not to seek reelection.

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

Smith revisits her childhood and offers insights into her marriage in a new memoir. Bread of Angels offers an intimate, if imperfect, view of the visionary punk poet.

As the opioid crisis grew in the United States, so did the number of centers for addiction treatment.

A riveting domestic drama from the director of The Worst Person in the World and a gorgeous historical drama set in the early 20th century are also on this weekend's movie slate.

We speak to E. Lockhart, author of the best-selling novel We Were Liars, about her new book, We Fell Apart.

Sarah Snook plays a mother desperately trying to locate her 5-year-old son in this gripping Peacock miniseries. The psychological thriller is adapted from Andrea Mara's novel All Her Fault.

Copeland says her final performance with American Ballet Theatre was a thank you to the communities that had supported her. "What I represented is something far bigger than me," she says.

The award-winning chef, restaurateur, and head judge and executive producer of the Bravo show "Top Chef," talks about his philosophy toward food, how food TV has gotten more people interested in cooking, and why the current economic factors are making it challenging to own a restaurant.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Garrett Graff, author of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 about former Vice President Dick Cheney's role that day, and thereafter.