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Horror writer Stephen Graham Jones says horror's current moment is powered by more than just fear.

Every fall, snow geese migrating south stop in Vermont and cover the ground in a snowy white blanket. Now, a new picture book celebrates that real-life awe-inspiring event.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Susanna Clarke about, "The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City," an illustrated story set in the world of her earlier novel, "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell."

A sweeping four-century debut novel that travels from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana. Plus, New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner on today's literary landscape.

Ernest Hemingway's debut novel, about lost and wayward young people after World War I, turned 100 this week. We look at its legacy and how the book has aged.

In 2025, Kenya recorded more than 235,000 teenage pregnancies. Young single mothers are often forced to leave schools and their families due to overwhelming stigma.

Author Raj Panjabi says communities are often best equipped to protect their citizens.

Even in the worst of times, memories of favorite foods, family meals and traditions can provide comfort and hope.

"Seize the Day"? "Let them eat cake"? Do we know where those phrases came from and what they mean?

Writer David Treuer's Ojibwe mother saw America as a country that tried to destroy her people. For his father, a Jewish refugee, the U.S. was the country that saved his life.