Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about an event to encourage young readers to pick up a book. We also get a sneak peek ...

The TV prequel to the Alien movies calls back to the best elements of those original films — including questions about ...

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to strengthen over the next several days and says it could become a hurricane ...

The president will meet with Putin on Friday in Alaska. A former secret service agent shares how the service plans last minute trips like this, especially one with major geopolitical implications.

After cryptic Instagram posts and a surprise countdown clock, Swift announced early Tuesday that her new album will be called ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

Karin Slaughter talks about her 25th book -- "We are All Guilty Here" - with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. It's a small town murder mystery - that twists and turns until the end.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

For multiple days, more people are killed trying to get food in Gaza than in Israeli air strikes, medics say.