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A few months after World War II, Sgt. John Gonsalves wrote home from his posting in Germany. He assured his mother that he was fine. Last month the letter turned up in a Pittsburgh post office.

When COVID started spreading last spring it was frightening for all of us. But the deadly virus was particularly unnerving for those who lived through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and '90s. Listen to one man's audio diary sharing an intimate portrait of the final years of his father's life.

During Hurricane Ian, a family took their dog, Baby, outside to go to the bathroom. Baby bolted and now a neighborhood is on the lookout for Baby - giving a community a distraction after the storm.

Jill Lepore digs into the story of Joe Gould, a legendary Greenwich Village writer and eccentric — and discovers that his missing magnum opus, long thought imaginary, may actually have existed.

A determined travel writer sets out to produce the first guide to a mysterious middle-European country in Gene Wolfe's new The Land Across. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says Wolfe mixes Kafka-esque mystery and paranoia with dark supernatural influences for "supposedly realistic novel that gives off the feel of a closely viewed dream."

As the United States formulates its response to North Korea's missile tests, Robert Siegel talks with Ashton Carter, Professor of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Carter recently argued that an op-ed arguing that the United States should preempt a strike.

Congress has a lot on its plate before the Republicans take over the House in January. Democrats hope to pass a spending bill, and the Jan. 6 committee will issue its final report.

More than 60 years after she died at Auschwitz, Irene Nemirovsky's novels are garnering worldwide recognition. For decades, her daughter, Denise, kept the manuscripts in a suitcase. Now that the novels are published, they are closing a chapter for Denise.

Mi-Ae Seo's novel has a great premise: The Bad Seed meets The Silence of the Lambs. But this tale of a psychologist and her creepy stepdaughter is hampered by its structure and stilted, strange prose.

Scrapped and shelved until now, Dessau mirrors a particularly fraught moment for the slowcore band.