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NPR's Scott Simon asks New Yorker contributor John Kenney about his comic new novel "I See You've Called in Dead." It's centered on a newswire obituary writer.

Loss of social support after a cancer diagnosis is a surprisingly common experience, social workers and cancer patients say. For young cancer survivors, it is a particularly difficult part of the disease.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sam Pope, an associate producer of the Holocaust documentary FINAL ACCOUNT, and Stephen Smith of the USC Shoah Foundation who helped with the project.

Writer Sam Irby talks about her newest collection of essays, Quietly Hostile.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Wara, who directs a climate and energy policy program at Stanford, about the financial calculus insurers are doing as the threat of climate-fueled disasters grows.

Neuroscientists say the pleasure response helps us survive as a species. So why do we feel embarrassed by some of the things we love the most?

People recovering from opioid addiction risk relapse when they can't get their medications after natural disasters. A group of doctors is calling for lawmakers to ease access to the meds.

This year's winner in NPR's College Podcast Challenge is a letter to a grandparent that grapples with health issues including dementia. It's the story of a family learning to talk about hard things.

Some schools are warning users not to log back into Canvas yet, after a ransomware group claimed credit for a data breach. Half of North America's higher education institutions use the platform.

More than two years into Russia's war on Ukraine, we take a look at how it's reshaped NATO. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Jack Detsch, a national security correspondent for Foreign Policy.