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David Gilbert's new novel & Sons chronicles the life of a Salinger-like writer and, yes, his troubled sons, against the backdrop of the New York literary world. Reviewer Mary Pols says the book is "seductive and ripe with both comedy and heartbreak."

Reporters for NPR traveled across North and South Dakota to see the challenges older adults in rural areas face when they need medical care — and to see what it's like for the people trying to help.

Qatar has decided to suspend its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel, officials said Saturday. The announcement comes after growing frustration with the lack of progress on a deal.

The Israeli military investigation said the examination found "no evidence to support claims of execution or that any of the deceased were bound before or after the shooting."

A woman with a terminal diagnosis asks her husband to leave the house in Ann Packer's new novel. Some Bright Nowhere is an absorbing book about end-of-life care and what the living owe the dying.

Semi-lost amid the tidal wave of news this week: The House intelligence committee has cleared Donald Trump in its Russia probe. But the road goes ever on.

Nashville public radio station WMOT will have a strong presence at the annual Americana festival. Here, the station's staff picks 12 terrific discoveries.

In 2014 the U.S. cited the attacks on Yazidis in Iraq as a reason to join the war against ISIS. But now that ISIS is gone, Yazidis are largely neglected and remain desperate on Mount Sinjar.

How you are judged as an elected official has much more to do with how you respond in the worst of times than in the best of times. Ohio's Republican...

Have you heard of Bass Reeves? Richard Potter? Spottswood Rice? "Box" Brown? If not, illustrator-historian Joel Christian Gill says, you're missing out on some of the best stories in American history.