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Amid growing unrest in Greece, the government there is temporarily halting construction o...

Five years into Europe's migration crisis, the conditions in the notorious Moria camp on ...

Journalist and historian Craig Fehrman has written a book called “Author in Chief: ...

A new, acclaimed novel takes a young child's meltdown and turns it into a surreal satire ...

Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise” takes place in a high school for th...

"A Long Petal of the Sea," a new historical novel by renowned writer Isabel Allende, draw...

Rahm Emanuel has served as a top adviser to Presidents Clinton and Obama, a three-term co...

Across the country, election officials are scrambling to decide how to adjust to the coro...

Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world’s most renowned and beloved musicians, is trying to prov...

In the United Kingdom just days ago, the attitude toward the novel coronavirus pandemic w...

Until 2018, Florida was one of only a few states that banned felons from voting for life....

As Americans stay home to try to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, we wanted to...

President Trump recently announced strict new border controls, citing concerns over the c...

In a new book, NPR’s Steve Inskeep has chronicled the little-known story of how the...

The coronavirus pandemic is causing immense economic damage. The number of Americans fili...

Dani Shapiro talks about memoir about her reckoning with an ancestry test that revealed a...

As COVID-19 spreads across the country, there has been some debate over the need for gove...

In previous books like "The Devil in the White City" and "Isaac's Storm," bestselling aut...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spent the last few decades working to improve global ...

Half the population of India lives in areas where water resources are highly stressed. In...

Terese Marie Mailhot, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book clu...

The work of women artists makes up only 3 to 5 percent of major museums' permanent collec...

What will the future look like? That’s the big question posed by a new exhibition a...

At the exhibition "Speechless: Different by Design," touching pieces of art is actually e...

Governing in a crisis like the novel coronavirus pandemic can define a presidency. What l...

We close the week with an uplifting tale from the United Kingdom. Amid shortages of essen...

Amid a global pandemic comes a novel about a global pandemic. Lawrence Wright wrote &ldqu...

The mantra of the Dallas Street Choir is “homeless, not voiceless.” Some 2,00...

Human rights activists and medical nonprofits are calling on the Greek government to evac...

As coronavirus has spread across the U.S., so have reports of violence against people of ...

Author Tayari Jones wrote the introduction to a new edition of Ann Petry's 1946 novel "Th...

In the days since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, there have bee...

As we have seen in Minneapolis, whose city council says it will defund the police, the mo...

Italy was hit hard by COVID-19 early in the pandemic. Now, prosecutors have begun an inve...

Protests over the killing of George Floyd have struck a global chord. Across the African ...

Amid dual national crises of a pandemic and outrage over racism and police brutality, boo...

Lauren Wilkinson, author of our June pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now ...

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, was elected to Congress in 2016. ...

In Britain, pubs reopened over July 4th weekend after nearly three months of coronavirus ...

In the wake of protests against systemic racism in the U.S., many industries are reexamin...

The global economy is likely to take a massive hit from the pandemic, and the World Bank ...

Italy is emerging from its COVID-19 nightmare into what is usually its busiest season for...

India has reported more than 1 million confirmed coronavirus infections -- a number excee...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a massive country, with a land area the size of Alask...

The Congo Basin is home to the world’s second-largest rainforest and a unique array...

It has been one week since an earth-shattering explosion ripped through Beirut, killing a...

Whether fleeing war, persecution, poverty or the effects of climate change, migrants and ...

The remote Darien Gap cuts across Central America, serving as a critical but perilous pat...

It has been nearly three weeks since an enormous explosion at Beirut’s port tore th...

In the United Kingdom, an unexpected result of the pandemic: a surge in dognapping. Puppy...