Food Chef and cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi gives his spin on comfort food in 'Ottolenghi Comfort' The book is filled with great recipes from four chefs' kitchens, along with an examination of comfort.
Arts & Life ‘My losses started the day I was born’: A poet on what it’s like to call Gaza home Mosab Abu Toha was able to escape Gaza, along with his wife and three young children. The award-winning poet talks about parenting in war and the devastation of leaving his family and friends behind. Terry Gross
Books Inside the making of 'Spamalot' with Monty Python's Eric Idle Monty Python founding member Eric Idle's new book "The Spamalot Diaries" tells the story of how the cult classic film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" became the Tony-winning Broadway musical "Spamalot."
Books In 'Our History of the Future,' author Nick Estes tells stories of past Indigenous resistance In the book, Estes tells stories of past Indigenous acts of resistance and how that resistance has lessons for the growing global water crisis.
Books Author Richard Powers celebrates oceans — and explores threats to sustainability — in 'Playground' American novelist Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "The Overstory," which addressed the destruction of forests. His new novel takes on oceans.
Books Seattle is a UNESCO City of Literature. Advocates want you to read all about it Seattle has been part of the global network of Cities of Literature since 2017. This month, they're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the City of Literature designation in Edinburgh, the first city to receive the title. Katie Campbell
Arts & Life Riley Keough helps mom Lisa Marie Presley emerge from Elvis' shadow in a new memoir Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. In From Here to the Great Unknown, Keough details her mother's unusual life in Graceland and beyond. Tonya Mosley
Arts & Life Modest moments become revelatory in the wry and incisive 'Shred Sisters' Betsy Lerner's debut novel weaves together the ordinary and the erratic to tell the story of a middle-class Jewish family whose suburban life is turned upside down by mental illness. Maureen Corrigan
Arts & Life A little mouse sets sail on a big adventure in 'The Ship in the Window' Author Travis Jonker and illustrator Matthew Cordell talk about the real model ship that inspired their picture book about a man, his son, a mouse, and the voyage that brings them together. Samantha Balaban
Books Nobel Prize in Literature goes to 'The Vegetarian' author Han Kang The Swedish Academy praised Kang for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
