Arts & Life Uzo Aduba thanks her mom: 'I didn't know how many prayers she sent up to heaven for me' The Orange Is the New Black actor grew up the daughter of Nigerian immigrants in a predominantly white Massachusetts suburb. She looks back on her mother's influence in the memoir, The Road Is Good. Tonya Mosley
Music With 'Time's Echo,' Boston Globe classical music critic Jeremy Eichler explores the music of memory In the book, Eichler examines works by Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Politics Mueller investigator says Russia interfered in 2016 -- and in the 2024 election too Mueller deputy Aaron Zebley looks back on the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and explains why his team didn’t indict the president in 2017. Zebley is the co-author of Interference. Terry Gross
Books Reporter's Notebook: The Jaipur Literature Festival debuts in Seattle in spectacular fashion JLF Seattle featured dozens of authors and creative speakers to Town Hall Seattle over the weekend; if you missed it, don't worry — the plan is for this literary event to join the city's summer festival pantheon. Katie Campbell
Books Octavia Butler's final novel delivers in every way If "Fledgling" is your introduction to the work of Octavia Butler, reader, all I can say is you're welcome. Katie Campbell
Arts & Life Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers plunges deep into the ocean in 'Playground' Richard Powers' latest novel brims with love for humanity and the planet. He makes clear that while humans have made this planet our amusement park, we have not always taken proper care of our toys. Heller McAlpin
Books A bodyguard battles a ChatGPT-wielding supervillain in 'We Solve Murders' A bodyguard, her retired cop father-in-law, a series of questionable deaths, and a villain who's using ChatGPT: NPR's Scott Simon talks with Richard Osman about his new book, "We Solve Murders." Scott Simon
Books 'Of Time and Turtles' tells tales of turtle rescue In "Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World Shell by Shattered Shell," author Sy Montgomery writes about her work volunteering with a turtle rescue organization.
Arts & Life 'Bad Monkey' novelist Carl Hiaasen says Key West has 'laws all its own' Hiaasen has spent his life skewering and defending his native Florida. His novel, Bad Monkey, has been adapted into an Apple TV+ mystery series starring Vince Vaughn. Originally broadcast in 2013. Dave Davies
Arts & Life A light-hearted murder mystery weekend turns deadly in Kate Atkinson's cozy thriller Death at the Sign of the Rook is an expansive novel that pokes fun of baroque, classic murder mysteries — but also delivers a fully satisfying, all-the-pieces-click-together ending. John Powers