Staff Favorite: An Interview With Poet Stephen Dunn
Weekend Edition is picking its favorite interviews of 2014. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to editor Barrie Hardymon about her selection — an interview with poet Stephen Dunn.
Books
The Risks, Rewards And Mysteries Of Reporting From Iran
Nazila Fathi covered Iran for The New York Times until she feared her arrest was imminent. She then fled her homeland. Her new book, The Lonely War, tells of the challenges of reporting on Iran.
Book Review: 'Skylight' By Jose Saramago
Alan Cheuse reviews Skylight by Jose Saramago.
The Incredible Story Of Chilean Miners Rescued From The 'Deep Down Dark'
Hector Tobar had exclusive access to the 33 miners to report his new book detailing the claustrophobic horror they faced when they were trapped for 69 days in 2010. The result is a doozy.
Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers
Woodson won the National Book Award for young people's literature for her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming. She says that growing up in South Carolina, she knew that the safest place was with her family.
WWII By The Books: The Pocket-Size Editions That Kept Soldiers Reading
In the 1940s, U.S. publishers printed paperbacks — everything from romances to Westerns — that were designed for battle. Molly Guptill Manning explores their history in When Books Went to War.
'Eating On The Wild Side:' A Field Guide To Nutritious Food
Our modern fruits, grains and vegetables aren't nearly as nutrition-packed as their wild counterparts were thousands of years ago, says health writer Jo Robinson.
Best Cookbooks Of 2014 Offer Tastes And Tales From Around The Globe
2014 was a year for faraway cuisines to take up residence in U.S. kitchens — cookbook authors cast their nets for flavors from Paris, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and points in between.
How Washington's Odd Couple Transformed Welfare
The new book The Professor and the President looks back at how Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan pushed the Nixon White House to embrace a relatively liberal plan.
Millennia Of History, Beautifully Illustrated 'Here' In One Room
Richard McGuire's Here started small — as an underground magazine cartoon 25 years ago. But it's grown to an epoch-spanning narrative that captures all the bits of history happening in one room.