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Nowadays, most of us regard candy as a guilty pleasure, but during the Great Depression, sugary confections were marketed as healthy and inexpensive meals. That's just one of the interesting tidbits author Beth Kimmerle shares in her new book, Candy: The Sweet History. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Kimmerle.

Gary Larson created more than 4,000 cartoons for The Far Side, and they've all been collected in a hefty new anthology. Yet the artist still has trouble explaining what his strange, world-of-their-own panels are about. Hear Larson describe a cartoon he wishes he had drawn, along with other excerpts of his interview with NPR's Bob Edwards.

One hundred years ago, F. Schuyler Mathews published a field guide of wild birds. He transcribed their songs into musical notation and tried to capture their essence in prose. A new book celebrates Mathews' work and the birds that inspired him. Hear NPR's Melissa Block.

Kevin Spacey's revival of the Eugene O'Neill play A Moon for the Misbegotten opens Monday on Broadway. He initially staged the play in his role as artistic director for the historic London theater the Old Vic.

An active CIA officer raised eyebrows by contending in a book that the United States is losing the war on terror. In his second NPR interview, the author of Imperial Hubris says U.S. policymakers made important mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A 17-year-old student in Arizona recreated the opening scene from the movie La La Land and used the song to ask the actress Emma Stone to prom.

Hostile questioning and a tense exchange with a fellow Republican, Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, mark Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Back in August, Carter announced that his melanoma had spread to his liver and brain. Today, he told his congregation that the cancer was gone.

A week after announcing layoffs, Jack Dorsey says he's giving a third of the stock he owns in Twitter to be distributed among its employees.

The surge in contested races and candidates running for municipal offices in the April Consolidated Elections has not translated into an equal increase…