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Host Debbie Elliott talks with author Jeanne Birdsall, the winner of this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature, about her book, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy.

His father, Joseph, came to the U.S. as a child, smuggled out of Nazi Germany with one of his sisters.

The Downtown Bloomington Task Force’s final report includes a recommendation to knock down an aging parking structure and build a new library-transit…

NPR's Scott Simon asks Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James about his new HBO series set in Jamaica. It is called "Get Millie Black."

Seattle-based researchers examined the disappearances and murders of Native American women in 71 U.S. cities. They found information on 506 documented cases — and huge, troubling gaps in the data.

Many people with intellectual disabilities can't talk or have difficulty speaking — and are unable to report when they've been raped or sexually assaulted.

With tensions easing between North and South Korea, the two sides are reviving cross-border reunions that began in 1985. On Monday, 93 South Koreans will board buses to visit relatives in the North.

Reviewer Alan Cheuse takes a look at three newly translated novels Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun and The Novel by Nawal El Saadawi. He says Jelloun's characters are as alienated and disturbed as any in contemporary literature. Cheuse calls The Novel "beautiful if flawed."

Only one officer has been fired over the incident. None have been charged with a crime.

Two movies about communities-in-conflict open in theaters this weekend, and though they come to basically the same conclusion, they could hardly be more different.