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Goats are taking over Manhattan. Or, at least a sliver that needs serious weeding. It's happened the past few summers and has become a beloved ritual for those unused to interacting with farm animals.

In May 1941, folk singer Woody Guthrie was hired by the federal government to travel up the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest and write about what he saw. Among the 26 songs Guthrie penned that month are "Roll On Columbia" and "Grand Coulee Dam."

In The Lover's Dictionary, young adult author David Levithan tackles the grownup material of love and squalor, piece by piece, in a dictionary format. Over the course of the novel, the small details about two lovers combine to create a heartbreaking (and often uplifting) whole.

Thriller writer Richard North Patterson knows about engrossing political dramas — he served as the SEC liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor. As his favorite thriller, he recommends Allen Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning Advise and Consent, a political novel that still rings true after 50 years.

In Children of Monsters, Jay Nordlinger looks at the lives of, among others, Romano Mussolini, Saif Al-Islam Gadhafi and one man who claimed to be Hitler's son.

A case in Norfolk, Neb., highlights how evidence from online services is fair game in the post-Roe v. Wade era.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with astrophysicist Avi Loeb about his plan to retrieve fragments of a potential interstellar meteor from the ocean floor.

A federal judge has ordered CVS, Walgreens and Walmart to pay $650 million for helping to fuel the U.S. opioid crisis by selling and dispensing huge amounts of prescription pain pills.

Opening statements begin on Monday. A jury faces two options to punish the person responsible for killing 17 people in 2018: life in prison or the death penalty.

From the swirling sounds of 18th-century Ottoman court music to hypnotic, modern chants from Kiev, NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz spin an extra-wide assortment of new classical music.