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Marcia Muller has written dozens of mystery novels set in San Francisco, her city of choice, starring no-nonsense Detective Sharon McCone — one of contemporary fiction's first liberated female private detectives.

Alexie says he always struggled with being named after his dad — so he decided to write a book about it. Thunder Boy Jr. is about a little boy who is eager to have his own name and be his own person.

Organizers of the Burning Man festival lifted a driving ban on Monday as muddy roads that had stranded thousands of attendees in the Nevada desert had dried up enough to allow people to begin leaving.

WGLT's McHistory series features Richard Blue, the first Black person to run for council in Bloomington. He was also a Civil War veteran, activist, member of a literary society, doorman at the state capital, and barber.

Henry Hoke's new novel Open Throat follows the perspective of a hungry mountain lion. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Hoke, who was inspired by the real life story of the cat "P-22" in Los Angeles.

The Armenian government said Monday that over 100,000 of Nagorno-Karabakh's estimated 120,000 residents have crossed into Armenia.

Six talented friends meet as teenagers one summer at a camp called Spirit-in-the-Woods. Meg Wolitzer's new novel follows their friendship over the next 40 years, from the success and failure of their artistic dreams to the envy that grows from the difference.

Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of three men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering near the University of Vermont Saturday evening.

Palestinians from Gaza were working in Israel when Hamas attacked the country on Oct. 7. Now, many are unable to go back and in limbo in the West Bank.

The population of Gaza is one of the youngest in the world. Here's why, what it means for this war, and what it means for the future.