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Akhil Sharma took over a decade to write his novel, Family Life, a mostly autobiographical account of an immigrant family and an accident that shatters their dreams for the future.

Military medics who are normally deployed to combat zones are now on a feel-good mission at home. They are helping to administer COVID-19 vaccinations at a dozen sites across the country.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with reporter J. Brian Charles of The Trace about how mass shootings have soared during the pandemic and their disproportionate impact on Black neighborhoods.

As Jordan's king tries to put to rest the flare up with a rival brother, his subjects — from callers to local radio shows to observers of the royal court — want solutions to the country's problems.

A day after President Obama announced he'll wait for congressional authorization before launching strikes on Syria; members of Congress attended a classified briefing at the Capitol. Even though there's still one week left of summer recess, dozens of lawmakers flew to Washington, D.C. from their home districts just for the meeting.

The five-part series explores the world's most iconic national parks and the creatures who call them home.

Mohsin Hamid's surreal new novel centers on a white man who awakens one morning to find that his skin has turned brown. The Last White Man only seriously strains credulity at its very end.

La Borinqueña and the A La Brava are new superheroes whose creators hope will influence change.

The rock trio has helped support a thriving underground scene in an unlikely New Jersey town.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maria Valdes of Chicago's Field Museum about a fresh haul of meteorites she and other scientists collected in Antarctica.